The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has announced details of its 2012 CEO Forum, to be held Feb. 15, 2012, at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal in Montreal.
The board of Alberta Health Services has approved the appointment of 43 new members and 43 renewed appointments to 12 Health Advisory Councils across the province.
One in four people hospitalized for depression were readmitted or visited an emergency room again for depression within 30 days of discharge, according to a new study by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) here. The results were published in the August issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
Students graduating from the University of Alberta's pharmacy program in 2013 just learned that they will soon have the option of applying for entry into the school's newly-approved PharmD program.
In order to ease patients through the often overwhelming recovery process, and reduce medication-related problems, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Illinois has begun implementing a two-phase program designed to improve communication between inpatient pharmacists and patients during their stay and after discharge.
