Pharmacist Awareness Month – March 2014 The Pharmacist Is In This month at our pharmacy, we’re celebrating Pharmacist Awareness Month. As a key member of your health care team, we want to make sure that you understand the full range of services we can offer. In addition to filling your prescriptions and providing expert medication […]
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January 1, 2014. That means we made it through another year! A year older with a few more wrinkles, a few more worry lines and for some, more grey hair. A challenging year for many in southern Alberta, but one in which we discovered the true spirit of Albertans. There is no doubt that 2013
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Stafford Pharmacy is pleased to announce that we will be recruiting patients for a study being conducted by the University of Alberta. This study is hoping determine how a community pharmacy cardiovascular risk reduction program can help decrease your cardiovascular risk! Background: Cardiovascular disease (disease of the heart and blood vessels) is one of the
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If you have an Alberta Health Care card, you are now eligible to receive enhanced pharmacy services from the Pharmacists at Stafford Pharmacy! While these services have been provided by pharmacists in some form for years, it was previously the patient who was responsible for paying the cost associated with these services. Pharmacies, in order
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Have you ever received a sample of a medication from your doctor? Medication samples are provided to physicians by drug companies. Physicians can then choose to provide these samples “free” of charge to their patients for a small duration, in order to determine if the patient tolerates the medication before they receive a prescription for
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Inducements, specifically rewards points and airmiles being offered on the purchase of prescription medicaions will be a thing of the past in the near-ish future. On April 18th, the Alberta College of Pharmacists announced that it would move forward with the process of banning these inducements. There is no proposed timeline for this ban, but it
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Cardiovascular disease causes one third of the deaths in Canada – more than any other illness. Although February was Heart Month and to celebrate, we were checking in on your heart health we think this is important enough to continue this service twelve months of the year. We offer the Framingham Cardiovascular Risk Assessment. The
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Providing more health care than you know: Ask a pharmacist March 2013 is Pharmacist Awareness Month, when pharmacists across the country reach out to make Canadians aware of the many services they offer to improve their patients’ health. A 2012 survey by Environics Research Group showed that while many Canadians are willing to see pharmacists
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Concern about the availability of extremely important injectable drugs is growing across Canada. Previously, the reason behind our increasing number of shortages was a mystery. The reason for this shortage is however, quite clear. Sandoz Canada, a major producer of injectable antibiotics, pain medication and anti-cancer drugs, had to shut down its plant in Quebec
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