Patient Compliance

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Total drug spending approached $30 billion in 2008
SK pharmacists expanding prescriptive authority

Saskatchewan pharmacists will gain expanded prescriptive authority under new Saskatchewan College of Pharmacists bylaws.
Skin patch eases milk allergies

Eight of 13 children with dairy allergies who wore a skin patch for three months could drink three times as much milk as before without showing signs of an allergic reaction.
Program eases anxiety before orthopedic surgery
Family doctors likely to see expanded CA role

Head of Novartis Oncology gives an insider view on drug development; warns that as therapies help cancer patients live longer, long-term care will fall to family physicians
LETTERS: Political cartoon of Pope in bad taste

We would like to share with you a few thoughts about the editorial cartoon of the Pope in the April 7 issue of the Medical Post.
Dr. Jacques Chaoulli investigated after man dies in waiting room

Man in distress was told to wait at clinic where private health-care champion works

CARDIOLOGY: Drug-eluting stents head off problems in diseased vein grafts