Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

$100,000 less a year: What pharmacies could lose on average with a fully public pharmacare
At the same time, Canadians could end up with even more limited access to medications if a wholly public pharmacare plan fails to deliver a formulary as comprehensive as what private plans today offer.
$5 million in fraudulent billing: Alberta Health wants doctor to pay it all back
Under the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act, the government can charge up to 8 per cent annual interest on the amount owed.

Health Canada recalls eyebrow beauty product with undeclared ingredient from prescription drug list

The unlicensed product contains 0.004% Isopropyl Cloprostenate.
POLL: Should mask mandates and other COVID controls be reinstated?

During the sixth wave, some are asking. Take our poll. See what your colleagues say.
Improve health care: Reduce administrative burden

Admin overload: Dr. Alykhan Abdulla argues we need scribes, we need more allied healthcare workers and we need more IT solutions in the second of a three-part series.
Trudeau visits Edmonton, criticizes Alberta's response to opioid crisis

Alberta's United Conservative Party government has focused on a recovery-oriented strategy. Access to opioid dependency programs and drug-use sites has been limited.
Families, doctors contest Alabama transgender treatment ban

The two lawsuits—one on behalf of two families and another on behalf two families and the physicians who treat their children—pose legal challenges to legislation signed into law Friday by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.
EXPLAINER: Where do U.S. opioid trials, settlements stand?

Collectively, businesses already have faced settlements, judgements and civil and criminal penalties totaling more than $47 billion.
Neighbourhood Pharmacies event set to delve into universal pharmacare discussion in wake of federal budget

Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada hosts its next Advocacy in Action online event this Thursday.
My fake employee did it: Pharmacist who made fraudulent claims hit with 13-month suspension and $17,500 in costs

Rami Abdelmalek, co-owner of a Pharmasave in Ottawa, tried to pin misconduct on an employee who didn’t exist, according to the Ontario College of Pharmacists

$100,000 less a year: What pharmacies could lose on average with a fully public pharmacare

$5 million in fraudulent billing: Alberta Health wants doctor to pay it all back

Health Canada recalls eyebrow beauty product with undeclared ingredient from prescription drug list

POLL: Should mask mandates and other COVID controls be reinstated?

Improve health care: Reduce administrative burden

Trudeau visits Edmonton, criticizes Alberta's response to opioid crisis

Families, doctors contest Alabama transgender treatment ban

EXPLAINER: Where do U.S. opioid trials, settlements stand?

Neighbourhood Pharmacies event set to delve into universal pharmacare discussion in wake of federal budget

My fake employee did it: Pharmacist who made fraudulent claims hit with 13-month suspension and $17,500 in costs