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- 10/26/2020
Can COVID-19 positive or exposed mothers breastfeed or feed infants pumped milk?
Healthcare professionals can provide patients with information page advising on COVID-19 and breastfeeding. - 10/26/2020
New PC Health app launched in Atlantic Canada
The free app offers real-time access to information including virtual chats with health professionals during set hours. - 10/26/2020
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Healthcare redevelopment project moving forward
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) Healthcare Redevelopment project is another step closer to transforming the way health care is delivered in New Waterford and surrounding area, and the communities of the Northside, a press release announced. The Nova Scotia government awarded the contract for the construction management services for the New Waterford Community Hub and Northside Health Centre projects to PCL Constructors Canada Inc. - 10/26/2020
New research shares safety strategies for women experiencing domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic
As a veteran researcher who has studied intimate partner violence for 25 years, Dr. Patricia O’ Campo knows that women experience higher rates of increased violence during epidemics — a troubling and well documented pattern. - 10/26/2020
'Escape the politics': B.C. clinic places ads seeking to recruit Alberta doctors
Denning Health Group, which runs seven clinics in several Greater Vancouver cities is running advertisements in Alberta hoping to recruit doctors, urging them to “escape the politics” and “come practice in beautiful B.C." - 10/26/2020
Manitoba physicians keen to see changes to province's virtual care model
Manitoba has yet to approve extended virtual care visits with doctors or specialists and is the only province in the country that doesn't allow doctors to bill for such visits. - 10/25/2020
Study suggests Ontario could avoid hundreds of hep B infections with newborn vaccine
How transmission happens between mother and child is not well understood but likely occurs in the third trimester, during labour and delivery, or in the first few months of life.