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  • The two-way benefits of mentorship

    Looking for more happiness in your work? I've found that when done right, mentoring students can be a source of joy, fresh ideas and career fulfillment.
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  • How do you retain your best pharmacy staff?

    We have all experienced various aspects of change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our lives have altered in ways we had never imagined. Our experience and relationship with our environment have become more tense and cautious. Our faces are half covered to prevent infection and our fear of COVID-19 infection dictates the way we behave. When it comes to business, how has this pandemic changed the pharmacy labour force scene?
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  • Great saves: A second chance

    Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Rod Lim discusses a confidence crossroads.
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  • Unraveling the biology of a mysterious condition: stuttering

    For centuries, people have feared being judged for stuttering, a condition often misunderstood as a psychological problem caused by things like bad parenting or emotional trauma. But research presented at a science conference on Saturday explores its biological underpinnings: genetics and brain differences.
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  • Great saves: Hats off and tick tricks

    Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Clover Hemans shared how in the brief encounter of giving a COVID-19 vaccine, many other patient problems get noticed.
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  • Omitting indoor air quality from COVID-19 guidance for shelters and long-term care homes is a grave mistake

    Our team, which includes researchers with expertise in indoor air quality, engineering, epidemiology, public health and knowledge translation, conducted a detailed study of the public, written guidance PHO has produced specifically for institutions such as long-term care homes, shelters, group homes and correctional facilities.
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  • Swabbing floors to detect COVID-19 could be a useful indicator of the disease’s spread

    Omicron spreads so quickly that it is no longer feasible to use individual testing to track how many people are infected in a population. And that means we no longer have the basic information we need to inform public health mitigation policies. New strategies for keeping tabs on the virus are needed.
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  • Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co founder, dies at 62

    Partners in Health confirmed Farmer's death Monday. The Boston-based organization said Farmer "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda,'' where he had been teaching.
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