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Proposed regulatory changes will allow pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to, among things, inject vaccines for RSV and will give pharmacists authority to prescribe Tamiflu. That's great, but could be better, said the Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada has found key similarities in all cases that led to the overdoses.

The annual CaRMS match used to be scheduled before the NRMP, its U.S. counterpart—giving Canadian medical schools precedence in drawing the best IMGs to their programs. Now, that advantage was relinquished.

Canada’s first known case ofthe Omicron variantBA.2.86 was detected this week in British Columbia as the country became the seventh in the world to report its presence.

Public health agencies across the country have been running vaccine catch-up programs.

Uploading prescriptions in batches to Alberta’s Netcare pharmaceutical information network (PIN) can cause problems, warns the Alberta College of Pharmacy. 

The vaccine is used to prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults 60 years of age or older.

The risk of developing at least one of the major allergies more than doubled by age five for kids who had been prescribed antibiotics before their first birthday.

While the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s lipid guidelines recommend a once in a lifetime testing of Lp(a), there are no approved agents for lowering Lp(a) levels.

A look at the impact of anti-inflammatory diets on rheumatoid arthritis, dementia and depression