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- 8/20/2020
Kentucky man faces $750K fine for breaking Canadian quarantine rules
A Kentucky man could face a fine of up to $750,000 or six months in jail for allegedly violating a quarantine order in the Alberta Rockies in late June. John Pennington, 40, was initially given a $1,200 ticket on June 25 after staff at a Banff hotel called the RCMP saying they believed the United States citizen was violating the Alberta Public Health Act during the COVID-19 pandemic. - 8/20/2020
Leading in the time of COVID
- 8/20/2020
MB boosts order, eligibility for high-dose flu vaccine
Manitoba has doubled its order for the high-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine and expanded eligibility criteria. - 8/19/2020
Indigenous boy needing health care was discriminated against: adjudicator
A human rights adjudicator has ruled that the Manitoba government discriminated against a disabled Indigenous boy by not providing adequate health care. The province has been ordered to pay the boy and his mother $42,500. The case centres on Alfred (Dewey) Pruden, who was 16 years old when his human rights complaint was heard last year. - 8/19/2020
New drug maker aims to be world leader in therapeutic CBDs
Firm led by son of Novopharm founder Leslie Dan and former execs from Novopharm, TEVA and Apotex - 8/19/2020
Solutions to the MD gender pay gap
As a member of the Equity in Medicine team, I volunteered to discuss the gender pay gap in Canada for an online hour-long session on a weekday evening in early July. I thought the attendance in the summer would be around a dozen people if we were lucky. The response was incredible, enough to make me hope (faintly) that women physicians in this country may finally have had enough of being treated so unfairly when it comes to remuneration and angry enough to push hard for justified change. - 8/19/2020
'Cautiously optimistic': Outbreak at Calgary Cargill plant appears contained
An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Cargill meat-processing plant in Calgary appears to be under control. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical health officer, reported last week that five cases of the novel coronavirus had been recorded at Case Ready Meats, a Cargill plant that readies meat products for sale in western Canadian supermarkets. - 8/19/2020
Liberals move toward changing federal drug policy as opioid deaths spike
The Liberal government taking steps toward promised changes to federal drug policy, while looking at how to reduce opioid-related deaths during the pandemic. The federal government launched a national consultation on supervised-consumption sites this week, saying they would be seeking comments from a variety of Canadians, including those who operate the sites—and those who use them. - 8/19/2020
Be alert for potential drug interactions with medical and recreational cannabis
Review provides a comprehensive list of drug-drug interactions, with particular focus on Rx drugs with a narrow therapeutic index