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Karyna Alyeksyeyeva is a pharmacist who co-founded 4Ukraine.ca, a website that helps displaced Ukranians pay for airfare to Canada, find work. 

More than 300 pharmacy professionals gathered in Ottawa from June 10 to June 12 for the Canadian Pharmacists Association conference, where keynote speakers and panel members underscored the profession’s position of strength and trust but also highlighted critical issues.

In his recently released book The Power of Teamwork, Dr. Brian Goldman, an ER doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, talks about how teamwork can make for happier staff, more efficient operations—and fewer medical errors.

When it comes to diagnostic errors, much emphasis is placed on gaining more knowledge to fix the problem.

Asks for the World Health Organization to develop and operate the database.

The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be added to the CPR and automated external defibrillator training it offers for free in high schools across the country.

The government announced the decision in a news release late Monday afternoon, saying it will move to Step 3 of its reopening plan at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

If the panel endorses the shot and the FDA agrees, it would become the second option for those children, joining Pfizer's vaccine.

The new rules are expected to come into effect on June 20, though two government sources close to the decision, who were granted anonymity to speak about matters they were not authorized to discuss publicly, say the rules for foreign nationals coming to Canada will not change.

Could insisting patients continue to wear masks after government mandates lapse result in college complaints? At least one FP is worried it might.