Healthcare

Ontario pharmacists can continue administering COVID vaccines until March 31, 2024.

As part of the duties of being a pharmacist, our job involves helping people when they are not at their best. Empathetically recognizing that they carry burdens with their visits to see us is the first step to being the helper (as bystander) instead of a combatant fighting against them.

Selling a pharmacy business is usually the biggest liquidity event of a pharmacist-owner’s life. Yet, in our experience advising pharmacist-owners, how they will integrate the proceeds of a business sale into their long-term financial planning is often something of a grey area.

New ailments are set to be added to the roster in October.

They can now administer substances by injection and inhalation.

Some prescriptions go beyond pharmacology. We asked doctors how they advise patients when pills aren't all that's involved. 

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Anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Powassan virus are now classified as 'Diseases of Public Health Significance' and have been added to the reportable disease list in Ontario.