Development and Implementation of Workshops to Optimize the Delivery of Vaccination Services in Community Pharmacies: Thinking beyond COVID-19.

Vaccines are widely recognized as the most economically efficient strategy to combat infectious diseases. Community pharmacists, being highly accessible healthcare professionals, have the potential to significantly contribute to the promotion and facilitation of vaccination uptake. In Canada, the jurisdiction of healthcare falls under provincial legislation, leading to variations in the extent of pharmacist practice throughout the country.

Helping Québec Pharmacists Seize the Vaccination Service Opportunity: The Pharmacy Best Practice Workshops.

Vaccinations are a safe and effective way to protect against infectious diseases. The World Health Organization estimates vaccines have saved more lives than any other interventions and every year about two to three million deaths are averted worldwide through immunization. To improve vaccination coverage, pharmacists have been increasingly involved in immunization roles in their communities-as advocates, educators, and immunizers.

Lichenoid cutaneous drug reaction at injection sites of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (Filgrastim).

Colony-stimulating factors are widely used for bone marrow recovery after chemotherapy. Various cutaneous side-effects have been described in most cases involving neutrophils. We report the first case of lichenoid reaction at injection sites of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in a 40-year-old patient treated for breast cancer.