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- 11/17/2022
Timing of menopausal hormone therapy important in terms of CVD risks
SOGC menopause and cardiovascular disease guideline details benefits, risks. - 11/17/2022
Foreign supply of children's pain meds set to hit Canadian shelves next week
One million bottles of children's medication will have been distributed to hospitals, pharmacies and retailers after next week, health officials said during a media briefing. - 11/17/2022
Healthcare workers' pandemic overtime hours highest in more than a decade: CIHI
The CIHI report cites Statistics Canada survey data that found more than 236,000 healthcare workers worked overtime in 2021, with an average of 8.2 hours per week of paid overtime and 5.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime. - 11/17/2022
'It really shook me': Calgary surgeon spearheads drive to send supplies to Ukraine
Dr. Paul Fedak, who is Ukrainian-Canadian, said he was watching a social media post months ago of a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, Dr. Igor Mokryk, taking patients down into a bunker as bombs were going off overhead. - 11/17/2022
QUIZ: Cardiovascular disease in primary care
Test your knowledge of Canada’s harmonized prevention and treatment guideline. - 11/16/2022
Top doctors in B.C. and Quebec say no to mandatory masks
Dr. Bonnie Henry said 90% of people in B.C. have some immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination, infection or both. - 11/16/2022
Provincial and federal governments must both take immediate action on medicare crisis
Provincial governments, instead of responding to the problem with the urgency required, have launched a media campaign for more federal funding. - 11/16/2022
Chinese leaders face anger over second child’s quarantine death
Frustration at controls that are confining millions of people to their homes and sparking fights with health workers in China. - 11/16/2022
Chronically ill, but 'dying of poverty'
Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.