The pandemic has increased older adults’ willingness to receive the flu shot, new research shows.
The study analyzed survey results of 4,501 Canadians over the age of 50 from ten provinces.
To be a professor during the pandemic has been challenging. Adapting content to online learning spaces demands time, dedication, and creative exploration of new ways to keep online learners engaged. This year’s recipient of the Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award demonstrates this commitment to learners.
Volunteers working alongside nurses, doctors, pharmacists, students, and staff are the secret to the success of the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) vaccine clinic. This week the clinic reached the 25,000 doses milestone, but there is still work to do. Many volunteers are long-time residents who appreciate and value the KW community. Collectively, they are committed to helping stamp out this pandemic.
In Canada, cannabis became legal to produce, distribute, purchase and use non-medicinally for adults on October 17, 2018. Though Canada is only the second country in the world to adopt this legalization, other countries have also implemented more lax cannabis laws in recent years.
In April, 150 students from across North America and beyond logged on for HackRx, a three-day hackathon organized by about fifteen University of Waterloo and University of Toronto pharmacy students.
Angie Puim (Rx2011) and her sister Gina DiVizo (Rx2013) are Waterloo Pharmacy alumni and co-owners of Preston Medical Pharmacy in Cambridge. The pharmacy was founded by their father thirty-five years ago.
At Preston, they’ve built a partnership with Community Living Cambridge, an organization that supports people with development disabilities.
“We’ve provided medications for the Community Living Cambridge residences for the past thirty years,” Angie says. “In April, when it came time to vaccinate their residents and caregivers, they called us to help out.”
2021 marks 10 years since OPSIS was founded. Left: participants in the first OPSIS conference in 2011. Organizers for that conference included Kaitlin Bynkoski and Robyn MacArthur who are current staff and faculty for the School. Right: Participants in OPSIS 2021.
“We all have dark days,” says Fatimah Jaffer, an Rx2015 graduate who has worked as a hospital pharmacist in London since 2019. “A particularly difficult conversation with a patient's family, the news that one of your patients passed after a long struggle, or a hectic day on the wards is enough to leave you feeling defeated.”
Since it opened in March, the Health Sciences Campus Clinic has been staffed by a hardworking local health care providers and volunteers. The Region’s third-largest mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is run by the Centre for Family Medicine and housed on the first floor of the School of Pharmacy. Many staff, faculty and students from the School of Pharmacy support its operations outside of their normal schooling and job hours.
Robin Andrade and Rosemary Killeen are two of these staff members. Andrade (below) is a Professional Practice Instructor and Registered Pharmacy Technician.
By Randilynne Urslak
Randilynne (third row down, furthest left) on a Zoom call with pharmacists across Canada, the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister