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- 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. - 6/9/2022
What role should nurse practitioners play in fixing healthcare?
There's no doubt that family medicine is in crisis, but Dr. Sohail Gandhi questions whether NPs will be the answer. - 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. - 6/9/2022
Ontario's chief medical officer of health planning for round of boosters in the fall
In an interview, Dr. Moore says there will be another booster dose available for the people most at-risk, with the potential to then open it up to the general public. - 6/9/2022
Calgary mayor wants province to reverse changes to emergency medical dispatch
Both the city and Alberta Health Services ordered reviews Thursday into why it took an ambulance 30 minutes to get to an 86-year-old woman who was attacked by three dogs and later died. - 6/9/2022
Canada’s poor health data infrastructure can be deadly
But we can still build a world-class system. - 6/8/2022
WHO: COVID origins unclear, but lab leak theory needs study
An expert group drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began, including a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident. - 6/8/2022
Pilot project for new family doctor funding model launches in Nova Scotia
Health Minister Michelle Thompson says three family physician clinics with 19 doctors will participate in the pilot.