(Vancouver) Sept. 29, 2022 — Today, Minister of Health Adrian Dix announced changes that provide patients better access to critical medications, and B.C.’s community pharmacists are ready to provide much needed additional support to these…
The B.C. Ministry of Health is conducting a survey of pharmacists to gain insight into how to proceed with a major redesign of the current medication review service model. This survey will remain open until June 2, 2022 and is currently the only…
The oral antiviral drug Paxlovid™ (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) is used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults who do not require hospitalization and are at high risk of progressing to serious illness.
There are a number of community pharmacies in B.C. distributing COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits free of charge to eligible British Columbians. These kits are rapid antigen tests that work by detecting the antigens (proteins) of the virus that…
