Guidelines

Candidates are urged to prioritize allowing pharmacists to do routine immunizations and minor ailment prescribing.

Subcutaneous monoclonal antibody may be self-injected for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults.

The U.K. Health Security Agency has recorded 111 cases of unexplained hepatitis in children under 10 since January. Ten of the children needed liver transplants.

Salvatore Forcucci was also found guilty by the Ontario College of Pharmacists of misconduct related to medication dispensing.

The new regulations, which govern the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, will lower pharmaceutical industry profits by $2.9 billion over a decade, rather than the $8.8 billion anticipated previously.

POISE-3 results showed drug performed better than placebo.

Co-author Dr. David Fisman, of the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana school of public health, said the message of the study is that the choice to get vaccinated can't be thought of as merely personal.

Health Minister Jason Copping said the province will fund 35,000 of the eye surgeries, an increase from 28,000.

The U.N. health agency said late Saturday that it has so far received reports of at least 169 cases of "acute hepatitis of unknown origin'' from a dozen countries.

The PromoVac strategy, developed in Sherbrooke by Dr. Arnaud Gagneur to convince parents who are hesitant about vaccination, will be deployed across Canada through a telehealth platform.