Patient Compliance

Common side effects of zoster vaccine may be mistakenly attributed to the influenza vaccine.

In total, the province is expecting to receive about 1,076,000 doses of the paediatric Pfizer vaccine from the federal government, which was approved by Health Canada last week.

The recently completed pilot saw 10% of users find a family doctor.

Screening should continue into later years; older breast cancer patients face worse outcomes according to study of patients in South-Central Ontario.

Pharmacies in British Columbia were left in short supply of medication as road closures disrupted the supply chain.

The optometrists withdrew provincially insured eye services on Sept. 1 in a funding dispute with the province.

Getting vaccinations into pharmacies for COVID-19 and beyond is the common goal

The Ontario College of Pharmacists cites a case highlighted in its Pharmacy Connection publication in which a physician’s office faxed two handwritten prescriptions for two separate patients to a community pharmacy for processing.