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Always on the lookout for look-alikes, recent reports have highlighted a case of very similar packaging.

The rise of digital pharmacy communities is not just changing how we communicate. It is changing who we become.

Emergency medicine pharmacists belong in medical TV shows, not just because it means realistic representation in media—but because their interactions with physicians are a natural source of drama.

When making an important decision about your profession, your career or your business, the best thing you can do is to step back and give yourself the benefit of a new perspective.

When it comes to the risk of contracting water borne illness, the past 20 years has seen a significant reduction in risk for travellers.

‘The continued reliance on outdated, paper- and fax-based prescribing systems introduces significant risks, contributing to medication errors, privacy breaches and administrative burdens that compromise patient care and place undue strain on clinicians,’ the study's authors write.

Study examines pharmacist minor ailment antibiotic prescribing for UTI and tick bites and its effect on physician and total antibiotic prescribing rates.

The announcement on changes to the safer supply program follows a leak of documents in February that said about 60 pharmacies were involved in the illegal diversion of drugs from the safe supply program.