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- 10/7/2020
Health Canada consultation shows various opinions on cannabis health products
Results from Health Canada’s consultation for feedback about sales, manufacturing and interest in buying cannabis health products (CHPs) shows support from consumers and industry for making the products over-the-counter (OTC) and available without additional practitioner oversight. - 10/7/2020
Health Canada examines safety of inflammatory bowel disease drug mesalazine in pregnancy
Safety review could not confirm a link between the use of mesalazine (5-ASA) during pregnancy and birth defects in babies. - 10/7/2020
These crazy times
During SARS, I was frustrated with a patient who didn't tell the truth to the triage nurse at the door and endangered herself, myself and all those in the clinic at that time. I tried to understand her fears and even kept in touch with her for the next few weeks to make sure she got better. - 10/7/2020
Apple users can now access health records from three GTA hospitals through their iPhone
Health records from three Ontario hospitals—Women's College, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill—are the first to make this feature available to their patients as of Wednesday Oct. 7. Other health-care institutions across Canada that offer electronic records can sign on as well, according to Apple. - 10/7/2020
Montreal doctors call for more family physician permits
Quebec's health ministry recently stated it intends to issue 98 family doctor permits for 2021, comparable to this year. - 10/7/2020
Hospital CEO speaks out after nooses again found at hospital construction site
Sarah Downey, president and CEO at Michael Garron Hospital, has written a letter to EllisDon's CEO after a third incidence of anti-Black racism took place on the EllisDon construction site in a four-month period. The incidents happened on the site where a hospital extension is being built at the Michael Garron Hospital in East York, a suburb of Toronto. - 10/6/2020
Rx Drug Mart named one of Canada's top growing companies
Started in 2015, the network of pharmacies is spread out across the country in every province except Quebec and Nova Scotia. - 10/6/2020
Doctors, pharmacies explore drive thrus, outdoor clinics to meet flu shot demand
Ottawa family physician Dr. Aly Abdulla says COVID-19 precautions rule out traditional mass-vaccination tactics, such as renting out the nearby legion. - 10/6/2020
Saskatchewan nurse disciplined over Facebook comments wins court appeal
In 2015, Strom aired concerns on Facebook over her grandfather's treatment a few weeks after his death. In her comments she said the staff of St. Joseph's Integrated Health Centre in Macklin, Sask. needed to do a better job of looking after the elderly patients in their care. - 10/6/2020
Referred pain
Musings on the misheard: How the tangled mess of language can send patients heading to the wrong physician.