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- 7/5/2022
AI: risks and challenges
For all its potential, Pat Rich explores why medical-related AI needs particular scrutiny. - 7/5/2022
Where do we go from here?
It’s important to remember that the role of the pharmacist has always been clinical, but now there is increased awareness, and public expectations have finally aligned with what we’ve been capable of offering for a long time. Our role in public health is being accessed and utilized in a variety of ways and at a greater volume. - 7/5/2022
U.S. allows pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer's COVID pill
The announcement comes as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising again, though they remain near their lowest levels since the coronavirus outbreak began in 2020. - 7/5/2022
Family medicine residents aren't biting at B.C's new two-year contract offer
Recent medical graduates from UBC haven't snapped up the chance of a $295,457 contract that includes a signing bonus and thousands in debt forgiveness. So, why not? - 7/5/2022
Poliovirus in London sewage—what you need to know
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a devastating disease that historically has caused paralysis and death around the world. It is caused by polioviruses, small RNA viruses that can damage cells in the nervous system. - 7/5/2022
More than half of Canada's AstraZeneca vaccine doses expired, will be thrown out
Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20 million doses of its vaccine, and 2.3 million Canadians received at least one dose of it, mostly between March and June 2021. - 7/5/2022
Newfoundland and Labrador replaces health minister amid doctor shortages
The bustling Newfoundland town of Bonavista held a community meeting last week about its lack of doctors, as its emergency room faces intermittent closures this summer due to staffing shortages. - 7/5/2022
Ontario likely in new COVID wave driven by BA.5 subvariant, science table says
Dr. Fahad Razak, scientific director of the group, says the highly infectious BA.5 variant also appears to be more immune evasive, meaning people who were recently infected can catch the virus again soon after. - 7/5/2022
Not enough bodies: UBC cadaver donation program numbers have dropped off
Medical and other types of students gain valuable insights from working with real human bodies that cab't be found in a textbooks. - 7/5/2022
Case report: back pain
A ‘picture’ of a common problem—with an uncommon twist. A new case Dr. Robert Dickson just saw in his clinic.