Corporate Governance

Vitamin Shoppe, the second largest, publicly traded vitamin and supplement retailer in the U.S., heads north under the Vitapath banner.

Helen Stevenson, former head of Ontario’s public drug plan during implementation of the controversial Transparent Drug System for Patients Act, has set her sights on reforming private-sector drug plans—and she’s hoping to count community pharmacies among her allies.

Deb Matthews, with three years plus at the helm of health, may yet challenge my tenure of 56 months as Ontario health minister. As I predict that Premier Designate Wynne will be skillful in avoiding an election, at least through the spring of 2014, it seems likely that Matthews will get awfully close. She deserves to stay on.

LONDON, U.K. | Six of the world's top translational health research centres, including the Vancouver-based Centre for Drug Research and Development, have announced the formation of a new Global Alliance of Leading Drug Discovery and Development Centres.

Faced with escalating costs for renting specialized mattresses for inpatients prone to bed sores, Kelowna General Hospital has implemented a mattress management program that has reduced rental costs by 67% since its introduction in November 2010.

An Alberta nurse’s aide says she has been sent home without pay because she refused to get a flu shot over personal health worries, underscoring a growing clash between employee rights and the drive to protect vulnerable patients and senior citizens from the virus.

Nurses and doctors in Saskatchewan are vulnerable to lawsuits under an existing agreement that allows doctors to delegate their duties to nurses, their regulatory agencies say. The Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association (SRNA) approached the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan's council last week in an effort to come to a new arrangement to solve the problem.