Interprofessional

Organization claims pharmacy-centred methadone distribution system is enriching pharmacies while limited treatment options.

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Ever-rising costs threaten the future of our healthcare system. Would unlimited funding fix everything?

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Supporters flock to Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport to celebrate AMREF’s One Legendary Evening in support of African air ambulance program

Edmonton | A report just released by the Alberta Diabetes Surveillance System shows a need for more teamwork between patients and their health-care providers to aid Albertans with getting the laboratory tests necessary to help manage and prevent long-term complications of the disease.

This year marks the third flu season since pharmacists in British Columbia received authorization to administer injections in 2009. To kick of the new season and raise awareness, Health Minister Michael de Jong and Marnie Mitchell, the B.C. Pharmacy Association’s CEO rolled up their sleeves to get their own pharmacist-administered flu shots in the B.C. Legislature.

In her new book, Dr. Myra Rutherdale reveals that nurses in the north "often worked on their own and in conditions that were less than ideal. They had to improvise and they had to go beyond their training in order to help in the communities where they worked. . . . Much of what happened in places like northern Canada had much to do with colonization and the politics of inequity."