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- 6/12/2022
Toronto to offer monkeypox vaccine clinics targeting high risk communities
Toronto Public Health says there are 11 confirmed cases in the city as of Saturday, two higher than the provincial total of nine released a day earlier by Canada's chief public health officer when she reported a national case count of 112. - 6/12/2022
Pfizer COVID-19 appears effective for kids under 5: U.S. panel
Late last week the FDA posted a similar analysis of Moderna's shots for children under 6. - 6/12/2022
Health Canada approves experimental ALS drug still under U.S. review
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said in a press release Monday that Canada is the first country in the world to give the regulatory greenlight for Albrioza as a treatment for the devastating neurodegenerative disease. - 6/12/2022
Number of Canadian blood donors plummets to lowest point in a decade during COVID-19
About 400,000 Canadians give blood on a regular basis. - 6/12/2022
The (pharmaceutical) funny pages: You give me fever
You weekly dose of silliness! Take two, or even three, as needed. - 6/12/2022
Canadian heading World Health Organization's fight against monkeypox
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Ottawa before studying medicine at McGill University. - 6/12/2022
B.C. Greens launch hearings on healthcare 'crisis'
With record numbers of British Columbians without a family doctor, the toxic drug crisis and questions about pandemic and lack of integrated mental health care, the Greens say urgent action is needed. - 6/9/2022
What do we really know about COVID-19 vaccine boosters?
With patients reluctant to get additional boosters, Dr. Noorali Bharwani examines the evidence. - 6/9/2022
Quebec politicians say more time is needed to pass expanded assisted dying bill
Christian Dube says the members of the committee studying the bill have agreed that the subject is too complex to be pushed through without all the necessary time needed to study it.