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• EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS UPDATES

Research, Regulatory Issues and Concerns:

• Hypertension patient handout

• Diabetic Heart Treatments can do harm- Studies

• Proposed prescription bar-code plan would save lives, experts say

• New prescription machines will aid patients and pharmacists
• McMaster -studied blood thinner getting closer to approval
• Over- Counter cough and cold medicines for children under 6 to be re-labelled
• Diabetes on the rise in Canada
• Study finds huge rise in oxycodone deaths
• Ontario examining tougher painkiller rules
• Bone Drugs May Lower Breast Cancer Risk