Across the country, community pharmacies’ claims for publicly funded services grew—in some cases, by triple digits—according to data compiled by the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy.
One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn’t get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding.
A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school, prompting public health officials to quickly roll out medical interventions.
‘We have the tools to make cervical cancer the first cancer ever eliminated in Canada. We have the medical expertise. We just need the political will,’ said Dr. Shannon Salvador, president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada.
While new medical breakthroughs offer unprecedented protection, fragmented provincial policies and surveillance gaps leave Canada’s most vulnerable infants and seniors at risk.
