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Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges
Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even days at a time during the summer of 2022.
Healthcare advocacy groups want provinces to seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement
Lawsuits by all 10 provinces, with British Columbia filing the first one in 1998, are against Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc., and JTI-Macdonald Corp., as well as their foreign parent corporations.

Raccoon euthanized after woman brings it to pet store and other customers kiss it

She was seeking to get the animal’s nails trimmed, which is a service the store does not provide to raccoons.
A case of mistaken assumptions: Pharmacist's failure to do his own checks leads to patient going into anaphylactic shock

Quebec pharmacist Quoc Nguyen thought two other pharmacists had counselled the patient about latex in the pre-filled injection caps for Lapelga, which had been prescribed to a cancer patient about to start chemotherapy.
Meet . . . Jaris Swidrovich, founder and chair of the Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada

Swidrovich is also an assistant professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.
UBC faculty of medicine mourns loss of colleague who died climbing Mount Everest

The University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine says it is mourning the unexpected death of Dr. Pieter Swart, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at the school.
The (medical) funny pages: Will I turn into Iron Man?

Your weekly dose of giggles!
Province plans for new cancer centre in Kamloops, B.C.

Health Minister Adrian Dix says the new centre at the Royal Inland Hospital will include radiation therapy.
Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada presents annual awards

The awards were announced at The Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association’s Pharmacy EXPO event.
Adding virtual physician consults to telephone service reduced trips to the ER: study

Physicians advised a large proportion of callers to B.C.'s 8-1-1 system not to go into the emergency department.

Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges

Healthcare advocacy groups want provinces to seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement

Raccoon euthanized after woman brings it to pet store and other customers kiss it

A case of mistaken assumptions: Pharmacist's failure to do his own checks leads to patient going into anaphylactic shock

Meet . . . Jaris Swidrovich, founder and chair of the Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada

UBC faculty of medicine mourns loss of colleague who died climbing Mount Everest

The (medical) funny pages: Will I turn into Iron Man?

Province plans for new cancer centre in Kamloops, B.C.

Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada presents annual awards

Adding virtual physician consults to telephone service reduced trips to the ER: study

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