ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 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. - 1/3/2022
Can medicine survive modern society?
Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech. - 1/3/2022
Quebec expands booster shot program by opening appointments to those 55 and up
All adults aged 18 and over will be able to book an appointment to receive their third COVID-19 vaccine shot before the end of January. - 1/3/2022
NLMA and province reach tentative agreement
The deal covers 1,300 salaried, alternate payment plan and fee-for-service physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador. - 1/1/2022
Reflecting on 2021 and the pharmacy profession
As I reflect on 2021 it has been a taxing year on the #pharmacy profession & through it all #pharmacists have stepped up to help protect their communities & provided optimal patient care which gives us optimism for the future.