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Jamie Wigston, BC Pharmacy Association Board Director and pharmacist at West End Medicine Centre in New Westminster, has been seeing a much greater demand for vaccines over the past year. Wigston’s pharmacy has so far administered 200 doses of the…

Dr. Abdu Sharkawy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Infectious Diseases consultant at the University Health Network. Having amassed more than 20 years of experience on the front lines, he routinely appears on multiple media outlets around the globe for his…

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the world in many different ways. People interact with each other differently and they also interact with businesses differently. These behavioural changes, or at least some of them, are likely to persist for some time and may even become…

Just over a year after a global pandemic brought the world to a standstill in March 2020, efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccinations across Canada are in full swing. And just as pharmacists stepped up in the face of immense challenges one year ago, pharmacists are once again being called upon…

Dr. Martin Lavoie took on the role of Deputy Provincial Health Officer in July 2020. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Population Health and Chief Medical Officer at Fraser Health. He shared with members the ever-evolving plans of the provincial government’s COVID-19 vaccine plans…

Community pharmacists are often the first health- care professional hospitalized patients interact with after discharge, and are the first line of defense against medication-related problems.