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- 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. - 6/9/2022
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.