Is swimmer’s ear really a minor ailment? OCP debates mandatory training and declarations as exploration of scope expansion continuesThis week’s Ontario College of Pharmacists' Board of Directors meeting ignited debate how best to establish competency for each new minor ailment. ‘I’m gonna look dumb’: Doctors want more women lifting weights. So how do we get them in the gym?During her first year of college, Elisabeth Bradley was inspired to try weightlifting after she followed a woman tracking her fitness transformation on social media, one barbell at a time. Sleeping apart: Rethinking the role of supportive touch in cancer care Patients undergoing chemotherapy often casually mention that they have started sleeping in separate bedrooms from their partners. ‘Just in case.’ NLMA advises physicians to delay signing CorCare agreement with multiple concerns Key to Newfoundland’s new unified health information system. Moving to B.C., doc? New webinar on getting settled in the province This recorded webinar for Doctors of BC has loads of details on resources available to physicians moving to the province. Cancer survivors having trouble sleeping? New clinical trial to test new Canadian tool Well over half of cancer survivors deal with insomnia. Baxdela (delafloxacin) is a new oral/IV fluoroquinolone antibiotic in Canada Approved by Health Canada to treat adults with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. Memorial PharmD grads to be eligible for enhanced bursary The newly enhanced $50,000 bursary will be available if they accept a position in the public health system with a three-year return-in-service commitment. Brief sleep-like brain activity may help explain attention lapses in ADHD Even while awake, ADHD brains can slip into brief episodes of ‘sleep-like’ activity during demanding tasks, leading to more mistakes. Safety is medicine—so how do we practise it? We built clinical environments to treat disease but didn't account for what they do to the nervous system. First Previous 98 99 100 101 102 Next Last
