Study shows pharmacists can boost vaccine rates

New research from the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto has found that a novel clinical service, called VaxCheck, can effectively support vaccination assessments by pharmacists—and potentially improve vaccination rates. “Our study demonstrated that the program can be operationalized within community pharmacy practice and is well received by patients,” the researchers, led by […]
Pharmacists want to do more in mental health

Given more education and training, the majority of pharmacists want to be doing much more for their patients with mental illness, notes a research paper led by Amy Soubolsky, winner of this year’s Pharmacy Graduate Student Award for Pharmacy Practice Research from the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for […]