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B.C. pharmacy college registrar says expanded accountability and discipline changes are redefining regulation, but public safety needs to remains the bottom line.

The committee has heard testimony from psychiatrists, physicians and legal experts, a majority of whom say Canada should not go ahead with MAID for mental illness.

The platform, set to shut down later in May, had hoped to gather 75% of prescriptions, Dr. Peter Vaughan, chair of the board of Canada Health Infoway, told the committee on Tuesday.

The researchers are also exploring the possibility of using this approach to deliver cells that could produce other useful proteins, such as antibodies, enzymes or clotting factors.

Evidence that shows people under 50 are two-to-2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer than they were in previous generations.

But don’t expect to be paid for ordering labs—because no one gets paid for that, noted a ministry official at the BCPhA conference.

Gongs and bells are often used by patients in hospital cancer sections to mark the completion of their cancer treatments.

The LGBTQ+ advocates argued that because doctors who didn’t comply with the new rules face fines or imprisonment, it’s a criminal issue and therefore falls to the federal government—not a provincial one—to oversee.

Hantavirus is not typically associated with cruise ships, and it is not easily spread between people.

As youth vaping remains widespread, the Canadian Lung Association’s ‘Spell it Out’ campaign employs a spelling bee to spotlight the chemicals in vape products.