As national pharmacare is slated to become legislation by the end of 2023 with a national formulary of medicines to follow, it remains to be seen how Canadian drug coverage will be impacted with the changes.
The B.C. Ministry of Health is conducting a survey of pharmacists to gain insight into how to proceed with a major redesign of the current medication review service model. This survey will remain open until June 2, 2022 and is currently the only…
The oral antiviral drug Paxlovid™ (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) is used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults who do not require hospitalization and are at high risk of progressing to serious illness.
There are a number of community pharmacies in B.C. distributing COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits free of charge to eligible British Columbians. These kits are rapid antigen tests that work by detecting the antigens (proteins) of the virus that…
