Healthcare

Childhood eczema: The AAD outlines an expanded treatment options
The first pediatric guidelines from the American Academy of Dermatology include 27 recommendations on atopic dermatitis. They confirm the arrival of new treatment options, without relegating basic therapies to a secondary role.
OCP offering checklist, to take on costs ahead of safety requirements deadline
The Ontario College of Pharmacists’s new compliance roadmap is meant to help designated managers be up-to-date on new AIMS program requirements.

It's always been personal

I did not want my understanding of pharmacy to be limited to one country or one healthcare system.
Medical studies and research should ‘inform your professional judgment, not replace it,’ ACP tells pharmacists

New guidance from the Alberta College of Pharmacy urges pharmacists to question weak studies and avoid relying on information that doesn’t fit a patient’s situation.
Manitoba pharmacist suspended after transplant patient went months without medication

The pharmacist was also found to have dispensed the wrong fentanyl product to a terminally ill patient.
Using the body’s own sounds to diagnose Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s before the first symptoms appear

To detect these diseases earlier, we are trying an innovative approach: analyzing the acoustic signals the body emits.
I’m a doctor who helped rename PCOS to PMOS—a 10 year process of listening to 14,000 patients and health professionals speak on how to improve care

A disease’s name can have a significant influence on its diagnosis and treatment—or lack thereof.
Doctors and B.C. government extend labour deal by four years

A joint statement by the B.C. Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC says voting by more than 4,000 doctors on the deal ended Thursday at midnight with almost 92% supporting the deal.
Uganda to a pharmacy owner in Canada

As a child, I walked from Kamwokya to Kitante Hill School every day. Those walks taught me endurance and to keep going even when the road was long and no one was cheering me on.
Tech disciplined for privacy breach

Saskatchewan pharmacy tech subject to an investigation and disciplinary measures.

Childhood eczema: The AAD outlines an expanded treatment options

OCP offering checklist, to take on costs ahead of safety requirements deadline

It's always been personal

Medical studies and research should ‘inform your professional judgment, not replace it,’ ACP tells pharmacists

Manitoba pharmacist suspended after transplant patient went months without medication

Using the body’s own sounds to diagnose Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s before the first symptoms appear

I’m a doctor who helped rename PCOS to PMOS—a 10 year process of listening to 14,000 patients and health professionals speak on how to improve care

Doctors and B.C. government extend labour deal by four years

Uganda to a pharmacy owner in Canada

Tech disciplined for privacy breach