Patient Lifestyle

A letter written by medical experts at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute and published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says Canada could see a rise in respiratory syncytial virus in infants and young children.

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

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

In April, 150 students from across North America and beyond logged on for HackRx, a three-day hackathon organized by about fifteen University of Waterloo and University of Toronto pharmacy students.

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.

CVac is an approach to immunization which combines vaccination with a weakened malaria parasite followed by prophylactic treatment with antimalarials.