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New website promotes tackling insomnia without use of medication
A website created by a Nova Scotia pharmacist aims to help Canadians wean themselves off sleeping pills by teaching them how to treat insomnia without drugs. David Gardner talks about said the side effects associated with sleeping pills that are costing the healthcare...
Diabetes Medications: Should You Deprescribe Them in the Elderly?
Barbara Farrell discusses the recently developed antihyperglycemic deprescribing algorithm and guidelines, developed by the BRI Deprescribing Guidelines Research Team with Medscape (Dec 27th,...
The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills
Barbara Farrell discusses the ongoing issue of older people taking too many medications and ways to facilitate deprescribing with the Washington Post (Dec 9th,...
New Canadian Network Tackles Overprescribing
Cara Tannenbaum and Barb Farrell discuss CaDeN and ongoing research and initiatives that are helping curb risky prescription drug use among seniors in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (Sept 14th,...
Deprescribing as Important as Prescribing
Barb Farrell talks about the deprescribing guidelines and the work of the Bruyère Research Institute and the Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN) in the Ottawa Citizen (Oct. 1st,...