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- 9/2/2020
Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine now approved for use in males 9-45 years of age
Helps protect against 9 types of HPV, including those that cause anal cancer, genital warts, and abnormal and precancerous anal lesions - 9/2/2020
Parents, educators push for outdoor learning experiments to address COVID fears
The ongoing pandemic has put masks and sanitizers on back-to-school shopping lists, but several parents, teachers and school staff are hunting for even more unusual materials: cut logs for the schoolyard, tarps to shield soccer pitches from sun and rain, and cheap yoga mats for outdoor seating. With many school plans failing to promise smaller class sizes and epidemiologists noting less infection risk outdoors, an ardent movement of teachers, parents and sympathetic principals are urgently pursuing ambitious outdoor learning plans they hope can be incorporated into the curriculum. - 9/2/2020
Volunteering during COVID-19 times
- 9/2/2020
Neighbourhood Pharmacies calls for all provinces to allow pharmacists to do asymptomatic testing for COVID-19
So far, asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 by pharmacists is only available in Alberta, however, Ontario pharmacists are expected to gain authority to do the testing soon. - 9/1/2020
Quebec community pharmacies meet the challenges and opportunities of COVID-19
Quebec pharmacies struggle with additional expenses brought by pandemic, but many are using the opportunity to innovate. - 9/1/2020
Waiting for referrals to improve
Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, head of Ontario’s Health Centre of Excellence, talks about how we can shorten wait times and improve the referral process. - 9/1/2020
Cannabis and anticoagulants – Are there any significant interactions?
With the exponential rise of therapeutic and recreational cannabis in recent years, the safety of cannabis use with other commonly prescribed medications has become a topic of interest. This review will summarize the available evidence on the safety of cannabis with anticoagulant agents.