Healthcare

In small care homes, each resident largely follows their own daily sleep schedule and has flexibility around meals and activities, in contrast with traditional ‘task-oriented’ homes that seek efficiencies through regimented wake and sleep times and mass meals.

A crucial recent interaction reminded me how important it is that—no matter how busy— we take just a moment with each patient to do what we do best.

A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.

Let's give ourselves—and our patients—some grace around reaching goals as the year begins.

A new study from Australia involving over 83,000 participants found that prolonged standing may not improve heart health and could even increase the risk of certain circulatory problems.

The agency says the recall covers Compliments, Foremost, Golden Valley Eggs, IGA, no name and Western Family eggs.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the complaint says the drugstore chain’s pharmacists filled controlled substance prescriptions with clear red flags that indicated they were highly likely to be unlawful. 

With the Alberta government cuting billable services and PrescribeIT now charging a 20 cents per prescription, here’s how pharmacists in the province are managing.