Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Is your pharmacy brain stuck in training mode?
The problem with pharmacy is that it is all practice. It is training without race day. The daily grind offers much of the same training as it did the day before. After a short time, we become jaded. We practise with repetitive questions, monotonous problems, completing the daily-weekly-monthly tasks and draft endless calendars.
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Gonzalo Miguel Adsuar Meseguer: ‘…the future belongs to people who dare to think big.'
When I graduated as a pharmacist, the horizon that awaited me was to start working in the community pharmacy and improve the healthcare model, going from a model centred on the product, to a model centred on the person and on professional pharmaceutical services assistance.

Q&A with Pharmacy U presenter Ajit Johal: ‘The future of pharmacy is chronic disease management.’

I have been a presenter at Pharmacy U since 2018, where I gave a presentation on travel medicine. I have always been impressed with the event attendance and, specifically, engagement from attendees to elevate their practice.
Chronic hives? New app allows patients to easily track symptoms

More than 65 million people are affective by chronic hives, but researchers say the condition is often underdiagnosed.
Cyber breach at B.C. First Nations Health Authority exposed TB tests, insurance data

A statement from the health authority says it hired third-party cybersecurity experts to help with the investigation.
Doctors warned to consider scurvy among patients hit hard by high food costs

A case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns the syndrome most associated with 18th-century seafaring persists in modern times.
Party leaders answer Doctors of BC questionnaire on healthcare

British Columbians are set to head to the polls on Oct. 19.
Alberta Health Services’ snag leads to potential delay of patient referrals

The health authority’s CEO, Athana Mentzelopoulos, says it does an average 100,000 referrals per year, but in some cases it can’t confirm if patients received referral services.
Couche Tard, On the Run parent firms challenge Health Canada nicotine pouch rules

Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court.
Resources to share with parents: Breastfeeding as a tool to soothe during immunization, painful procedures

Evidence shows the pain-reducing strategy works for immunizations and brief procedures.

Is your pharmacy brain stuck in training mode?

Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Gonzalo Miguel Adsuar Meseguer: ‘…the future belongs to people who dare to think big.'

Q&A with Pharmacy U presenter Ajit Johal: ‘The future of pharmacy is chronic disease management.’

Chronic hives? New app allows patients to easily track symptoms

Cyber breach at B.C. First Nations Health Authority exposed TB tests, insurance data

Doctors warned to consider scurvy among patients hit hard by high food costs

Party leaders answer Doctors of BC questionnaire on healthcare

Alberta Health Services’ snag leads to potential delay of patient referrals

Couche Tard, On the Run parent firms challenge Health Canada nicotine pouch rules

Resources to share with parents: Breastfeeding as a tool to soothe during immunization, painful procedures