Evaluating the clarity, applicability, and evaluability of an ASHP standard for international pharmaceutical practice in a Quebec healthcare institution.

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Novel Amazonian Ceratomyxa species (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) with amoeboid plasmodial motility.

Myxosporeans are a diverse group of cnidarian endoparasites of aquatic animals, with more than 2,600 described species. The genus Ceratomyxa includes some 270 species that are mostly coelozoic and infect the gall bladders of mainly marine fish. During our survey in Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon, two Ceratomyxa species were discovered in the gallbladders of the anostomid fishes Schyzodon fasciatus and Schyzodon vittatus.

Drug shortages in Canada, 2019-2023: A descriptive study.

Context: Drug shortages impact patients from all countries. According to the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union, most Europe countries reported a worsening of shortages in 2023.

Objective: To describe drug shortage episodes in Canada over a recent 4-year period.

Delayed surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic did not affect long-term outcomes of pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Background: During the Covid-19 pandemic cancer surgery was severely affected due to relocation of healthcare resources and the resulting restructuring of cancer pathways. Although this potentially affected rapidly progressing malignancies like pancreatic cancer the most, little is known about long-term outcomes following pancreatectomy.

Materials And Methods: Survival data from two pancreatic surgery centres in the UK was analysed with patients being compared across pre-pandemic (C19-) and intra-pandemic (C19+) groups.

Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture.

The paper offers a critical reading of the dominant ways we frame and understand anxiety in adolescence. These centre on the individual and for the most part limit attention to external and social influences operating at a close scale to the individual. The paper sets out to explore what including perspectives from macro-scale contemporary cultural contexts might reveal and add to how we understand adolescent anxiety.