Patient Compliance

The pharmacy chain is set to partner with healthcare software company Think Research Corporation.

A few simple communication tactics can help alleviate patient worries, prevent conflict, and ensure patients leave your pharmacy feeling confident in their new prescription.

Over-the-counter consults, prescription counselling, and medication reviews are excellent opportunities to educate patients on the benefits of topical alternatives.

Many pharmacists have asked me how to start a new collaborative project with other health care providers.

Highlights from the Canadian Medical Protective Association's annual report.

Boasting 99.9% accuracy, Inagene's pharmacogenomic test kits can help pharmacists and physicians determine the most effective drug treatments, without the trial and error that many patients have to go through.

This represents a key opportunity to show the general public that pharmacists can indeed go out into the community to care for patients.

Robert Maranda, a spokesman for the Health Department, says there are no studies that assess the impact of receiving three doses of two separate vaccines.

A recent Statistics Canada report found that since the start of the pandemic, the majority of excess deaths among Canadians under 65 came from substance abuse and overdose, including opioids and drugs.