For many Ontario pharmacist owners, especially those serving the province’s most vulnerable patients, the title of ‘independent pharmacist’ is a bit of fiction.
The internal document sent Sept. 10 by the justice department asks other departments to assemble inormation as per a directive from the premier's office to invoke the clause.
The C.D. Howe Institute report is the result of a policy workshop held in August, which included people representing the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry and government, along with academics and former public servants.
Health Canada is also proposing to add ‘melatonin or its salts’ to the Prescription Drug List when used for any sleep-related use in the general pediatric population.
Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., has spent months fighting a cull order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that would result in the deaths of nearly 400 birds.
