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- 1/4/2022
Poll: Is Omicron having an impact on your staffing?
As Omicron cuts a swath through the Canadian population, healthcare workers are extremely vulnerable to this virulent variant. - 1/4/2022
Blood test may one day predict severe pregnancy complication
Preeclampsia happens in around 1 of 20 pregnancies, usually in the third trimester, and can cause organ damage, stroke and preterm birth. Pregnancy-related high blood pressure disorders are among the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. - 1/4/2022
Practising yoga for physicians
Dr. Melanie Bechard, an emergency pediatric specialist, shares her story about how yoga changed the way that she lives her life as a doctor. - 1/4/2022
Not always healthy: what your patients need to know about plant-based diets
Plant-based meats are often high in sodium, ultra-processed and not any healthier than meat. Meanwhile, nearly half of the consumers think they are more nutritious. - 1/4/2022
Provinces to receive large shipments of rapid tests this month: prime minister
Trudeau said he understands people are frustrated and feeling as though the country is back in the early months of the pandemic, despite more than a year of sacrifices and significant efforts. - 1/4/2022
With COVID on the job: France allows infected medics to work
It is a calculated risk, with the possibility that COVID-positive health workers and carers could infect colleagues and patients weighed against what the government says is a need to keep essential services running. - 1/4/2022
We've got to get on top of long COVID before it drowns us
With Omicron raging through the population, we need to stay on top of—and properly fund—the science behind long-COVID, set to be a post-pandemic pandemic of its own. - 1/4/2022
With salty language, Macron berates France's unvaccinated
French President Emmanuel Macron burst into the presidential race with an explosive remark about the country's minority of unvaccinated people—in an apparent effort to win support from mainstream voters but at the risk of widening divisions over the issue. - 1/4/2022
Some overloaded Quebec healthcare facilities forced to cancel staff vacations
After working overtime without much time off since the beginning of the pandemic, nurse Agathe Vezina said the latest measure feels like a slap to healthcare employees.