Medication Management

With or without help from government policy: CAPhE is leading the charge of greener asthma treatment
Pharmacy association aims to modernize coverage of smart inhalers by removing restrictions.
Quebec hospital and long-term care pharmacists vote in favour of pressure tactics
In their work, hospital pharmacists try to curb pharmacy expenses, for example, by implementing solutions to avoid wasting medications that are about to expire or by recovering vials of medication that are very expensive. All these protocols could be abandoned, and Quebec risks seeing its costs balloon.

Canada is in the midst of a pet medication storage. How can pharmacists help out?

After the Competition Bureau got involved and created a pathway for pharmacists to dispense pet drugs, some pharmacists see pet medication dispensing and compounding as a new opportunity.
Number of people starting ADHD meds is up 157% in Ontario: study

First author Dr. Daniel Myran said his concern is that some people could be exposed to adverse side effects of the medication unnecessarily, and they might miss an opportunity to treat other mental health conditions.
The brutal math of BC PharmaCare's new fee plan

How pleased are pharmacists with BC PharmaCare's recent decision to pay $1 more for less patient care? Pleased doesn't begin to describe it. Not at all. And how many ways will patient care be impacted? Let me count the ways.
Why is there so little e-prescribing in Canada? New whitepaper explores the benefits

‘The continued reliance on outdated, paper- and fax-based prescribing systems introduces significant risks, contributing to medication errors, privacy breaches and administrative burdens that compromise patient care and place undue strain on clinicians,’ the study's authors write.
Canada asleep: Insomnia deserves modern medicine

Two clinicians wonder why dual orexin receptor antagonists don’t get covered by Canada’s provincial drug plans.
December drug news roundup: Five new products pharmacists and physicians should know about

Get the info you need on these new products, part of our drug news roundup for December.
The human future of pharmacy

Beyond faster automation or smarter software, the future of pharmacy really is all about the people.
Expanding psychologists’ scope of practice would undermine continuity of care: CFPC

The College of Family Physicians of Canada is urging the Ontario government to reconsider its plan to expand the scopes of practice for psychologists and other health professionals.

With or without help from government policy: CAPhE is leading the charge of greener asthma treatment

Quebec hospital and long-term care pharmacists vote in favour of pressure tactics

Canada is in the midst of a pet medication storage. How can pharmacists help out?

Number of people starting ADHD meds is up 157% in Ontario: study

The brutal math of BC PharmaCare's new fee plan

Why is there so little e-prescribing in Canada? New whitepaper explores the benefits

Canada asleep: Insomnia deserves modern medicine

December drug news roundup: Five new products pharmacists and physicians should know about

The human future of pharmacy

Expanding psychologists’ scope of practice would undermine continuity of care: CFPC