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GREAT NEWS!!!! 

We the National Office would like to inform the SNPhA family that the new scholarships are available on the website. The applications can be found on the forms tab of the website. We thank the family for their patience and look forward to seeing everyone soon in the upcoming conferences. Applications are due no later than February 15th, 2012 (Post marked) except for Target scholarship's due date of February 28th,2012 (Post marked).  


Respectfully,


-National Office


Greetings SNPhA Members,

Welcome to another exciting year in SNPhA! Your unwavering dedication and passion for helping theunderserved and affecting real change in our communities has led to an unprecedented level of growthin membership, submission of resolutions, and the development of innovative service projects. As weenter our 39th year of service, I look forward to raising the bar even higher as we ascend to new heightsin leadership within the pharmacy profession and service within the community. Always know that weare hard at work on your behalf to provide you with all the tools and support you need to continue to L.E.A.D. in all you do. Let’s make it a great year!


Sincerely,

Leshawn Smith

National President 2011-2012

Latest Pharm News

Feb 01
A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that commercial electronic prescribing systems (commonly known as e-prescribing, in which prescribers use a computer to order medications for their patients through a system with the help of prompts, aids, and alerts) could substantially reduce prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients...
Jan 20
According to an investigation by researchers from the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), the cost of prescription medication affects 1 in 10 Canadians, and 1 in 4 individuals without medication insurance cannot afford to have their prescriptions filled...
Jan 19
Compared to similar people who don't take them, nursing home residents with dementia who take average doses of a class of drugs used to treat depression are three times more likely to have an injurious fall. These are the findings of a new study from The Netherlands published online in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology on Wednesday...
Jan 17
Fraudulent and substandard antimalarial drugs could be wrecking the chances of winning the war against malaria in Africa, researchers from the Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford University Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration reported in the Malaria Journal...
Jan 17
One in ten Canadians cannot afford to take their prescription drugs as directed, according to an analysis by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. The study, published in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) is the first to examine the relationship between drug insurance and the use of prescription drugs in Canada...
Jan 09
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