Healthcare

Art and medicine
When I was in undergrad, someone proposed a class where medical students would analyze a piece of writing and discuss how it applied to medicine. Our seminar professor said, ‘This class will be ignored.’
A dangerous combination: Electric scooters and substance use
Driving e-scooters under the influence lead to more complex scooter-related injuries.

How UBC integrated Indigenous health and cultural safety education into its PharmD program

UBC's UPROOT project has spent the last decade designing and implementing curriculum about Indigenous health for B.C.'s only pharmacy program.
Here’s how one law from the ‘50s allows corporations to own (some) pharmacies in Ontario

A new story in The Globe and Mail highlights this 71 year-old law.
Alberta Medical Association announces support for CMA’s legal challenge against province’s gender care ban for minors

In a letter published Thursday, AMA president Dr. Shelley Duggan called Bill 26 ‘an incursion into the patient-physician relationship.’
New course goes deep on geriatric pharmacotherapy

Online course is designed to boost healthcare providers' depth of knowledge on pharmacotherapy for older patients.
‘One vaccine, two lives’: COVID vaccine ‘strongly recommended’ during pregnancy, say Canadian doctors

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada issued the assurance Wednesday.
A new COVID-19 variant may be driving up cases in some parts of the world: WHO

Airport screening in the United States has detected the new variant in travelers arriving from those regions to destinations in California, Washington state, Virginia and New York.
Tobacco and disease

It's time we legislate tobacco into oblivion, Dr. Hector Baillie argues.
How pharmacists work on the frontlines with Doctors Without Borders

Sam Okeyo, project pharmacy manager for Doctors without borders (MSF), in South Africa discusses the role pharmacists play there—and outlines the federation's Humanitarian Competency Framework.

Art and medicine

A dangerous combination: Electric scooters and substance use

How UBC integrated Indigenous health and cultural safety education into its PharmD program

Here’s how one law from the ‘50s allows corporations to own (some) pharmacies in Ontario

Alberta Medical Association announces support for CMA’s legal challenge against province’s gender care ban for minors

New course goes deep on geriatric pharmacotherapy

‘One vaccine, two lives’: COVID vaccine ‘strongly recommended’ during pregnancy, say Canadian doctors

A new COVID-19 variant may be driving up cases in some parts of the world: WHO

Tobacco and disease

How pharmacists work on the frontlines with Doctors Without Borders