Pharmacies linked to prescription monitoring program

Pharmacies across the province are now hooked into the new Drug Information System.

That gives real-time medication history for any patient. The government is also enhancing its prescription monitoring program so alerts will help doctors and pharmacists identify potential issues such as so-called double-doctoring where people gop to more than one doctor to get more drugs

Cyber security research money for UNB

UNB is getting $200,000 from Ottawa to help its dean of computer science work as a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity.

Ali Ghorbani has a seven year term to develop ways to identify cyberthreats and cybercriminal activity. He says he’ll be able to expand his research program, attract more graduate students and research associates, and increase collaborations with the cybersecurity industry.