Healthcare

How UBC integrated Indigenous health and cultural safety education into its PharmD program
UBC's UPROOT project has spent the last decade designing and implementing curriculum about Indigenous health for B.C.'s only pharmacy program.
Here’s how one law from the ‘50s allows corporations to own (some) pharmacies in Ontario
A new story in The Globe and Mail highlights this 71 year-old law.

Trump administration cancels US$766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu

The funds were awarded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, a program that focuses on medical treatments for potential pandemics.
Alberta Medical Association announces support for CMA’s legal challenge against province’s gender care ban for minors

In a letter published Thursday, AMA president Dr. Shelley Duggan called Bill 26 ‘an incursion into the patient-physician relationship.’
Have measles outbreaks shifted public opinion on mandatory vaccination?

Comparing 2024 and 2025, a recent poll shows a dramatic shift.
Bill that would allow Nunavut pharmacists to prescribe, vaccinate and treat minor ailments passes third reading

Nunavut becomes the latest jurisdiction to expand pharmacists’ scope of practice.
New course goes deep on geriatric pharmacotherapy

Online course is designed to boost healthcare providers' depth of knowledge on pharmacotherapy for older patients.
‘One vaccine, two lives’: COVID vaccine ‘strongly recommended’ during pregnancy, say Canadian doctors

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada issued the assurance Wednesday.
A new COVID-19 variant may be driving up cases in some parts of the world: WHO

Airport screening in the United States has detected the new variant in travelers arriving from those regions to destinations in California, Washington state, Virginia and New York.
Tobacco and disease

It's time we legislate tobacco into oblivion, Dr. Hector Baillie argues.

How UBC integrated Indigenous health and cultural safety education into its PharmD program

Here’s how one law from the ‘50s allows corporations to own (some) pharmacies in Ontario

Trump administration cancels US$766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu

Alberta Medical Association announces support for CMA’s legal challenge against province’s gender care ban for minors

Have measles outbreaks shifted public opinion on mandatory vaccination?

Bill that would allow Nunavut pharmacists to prescribe, vaccinate and treat minor ailments passes third reading

New course goes deep on geriatric pharmacotherapy

‘One vaccine, two lives’: COVID vaccine ‘strongly recommended’ during pregnancy, say Canadian doctors

A new COVID-19 variant may be driving up cases in some parts of the world: WHO

Tobacco and disease