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- 2/24/2022
N.B. to end vaccine passport Feb. 28, lift all COVID-19 restrictions by March 14
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs today unveiled the province's timeline to end all pandemic-related public health restrictions. - 2/24/2022
Great saves: Virtual care rescue
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Christine Dickson talks about her previously familiarity with a tool allowed her to make a quick pivot. - 2/23/2022
What do we know about BA.2, the sublineage of COVID-19's Omicron variant?
BA.2 was detected in Canada as early as December, according to Health Canada data, but a report last week from the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group suggests the newer Omicron strain could be spreading faster in parts of the country than the current dominant version, BA.1. - 2/23/2022
Oversight committee rules out mysterious brain disease in New Brunswick
The oversight committee of six neurologists was appointed last year after questions were raised about the existence of a mystery brain syndrome that had alarmed residents and stumped the medical community. - 2/23/2022
Great saves: In a heartbeat
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Hector Baillie discusses the joy of finally treating an ailment that plagued a patient their whole life. - 2/23/2022
Ontario suggests ways to reduce ambulance off load delays
Ambulance offload delays, when paramedics wait in an emergency department for a patient to be transferred to the care of a hospital, have been exacerbated by the pandemic and have at times meant some regions are left with no available ambulances. - 2/23/2022
Great saves: In the neck of time
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. - 2/23/2022
So what do plastic surgeons do all day?
A look into the typical workday of Dr. Christine Nicholas, a plastic surgeon who specializes in breast reconstruction and melanoma in the Toronto area. - 2/23/2022
Health Canada authorizes made in Canada plant-based COVID-19 vaccine from Medicago
The two-dose, plant-based vaccine is authorized for use in people aged 18 to 64.