The goal of the Health Product InfoWatch is to raise awareness and to provide clinically relevant information to healthcare professionals concerning marketed health products and their safety. In some cases, information is intended to stimulate reporting of similar adv...
Happy Holidays from all of us at ACP! We hope you enjoy time spent with family and friends during this holiday season.
Our office will be closed after 4:30 p.m. on Friday, December 23, 2016, and will reopen on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
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The ACCESS Study is encouraging medication adherence in low income (less than $50,000 annual household income) Alberta seniors. ACCESS is a three-year study being conducted by Dr. Braden Manns and Dr. David Campbell at the University o...
We recently became aware of two Edmonton area physicians who share the exact same first, last and middle name. Each with the name Dr. Navdeep Singh Dhaliwal, one physician is a general practitioner and the other is an emergency room physician.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent Regional Meetings in Edmonton, Lethbridge, and online! Together with over 100 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, we explored two main themes impacting pharmacy practice in Alberta; Modernizing Role Statements for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, and Pharmacy Working Conditions.
Council convened December 5-6, 2016 in Edmonton and will reconvene again on March 2-3, 2017. Following are highlights of council’s December deliberations:
Pharmacists are reminded that the influenza vaccine administered as a nasal spray (FluMist) is a live, attenuated vaccine, and therefore caution must be exercised in determining if it should be administered to immunocompromised patien...
Over the past month, the college has investigated several complaints involving registrants who have calculated and then dispensed an incorrect, and potentially dangerous, dose of ranitidine solution for infant patients. Pharmacist...
Thank you to all the pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in community and hospital-based practices who have taken extraordinary measures to work with physicians to meet the wishes of individuals who have chosen and been authorized to receive MAID.
ACP was to readdress its guidance to members into a single document in 2016, which has been delayed. During the first quarter of 2017, yo...
The goal of the Health Product InfoWatch is to raise awareness and to provide clinically relevant information to healthcare professionals concerning marketed health products and their safety. In some cases, information is intended to stimulate reporting of similar adve...
