Martha Porado
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/16/2024
POLL: Are you seeing supply issues with autumn vaccines?
There have been reports of pharmacists having to delay or even cancel appointments because autumn vaccines haven’t arrived in time. - 10/3/2024
QUIZ: Managing stable COPD in primary care
Are you up to date with the latest recommendations on treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Find out here! - 10/2/2024
Official confirms Ontario child died of rabies after bat exposure
Dr. Malcolm Lock, the acting medical officer of health for the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit, confirmed the death during a board of health meeting. - 10/1/2024
Canadian government not ordering Novavax’s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year
PHAC says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of its updated protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, which far exceeds the uptake by Canadians last year. - 9/26/2024
B.C. company sanctioned by U.S. Treasury Department wants Health Canada licences back
The chemical firm claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged involvement in importing precursor chemicals that could be used in illicit drug production. - 9/25/2024
Manitoba government says it's on track to hiring 1,000 new healthcare workers
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says the addition of the new staff will help shorten hospital wait times that have been hammered since the COVID-19 pandemic. - 9/25/2024
Disability rights groups launch Charter challenge against MAID law
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death. - 9/25/2024
People with diabetes in lower-income areas at higher risk for amputations: report
More than 7,000 people with diabetes undergo a leg, foot or toe amputation every year—and the majority of those procedures could have been prevented, according to a new CIHI report. - 9/25/2024
‘Not much has changed’: Indigenous physicians reflect on healthcare in Canada
Dr. Michael Anderson clearly remembers a First Nations child flown into the Toronto pediatric ward where he was working 30 years ago. Standing in front of the nursing station, Dr. Anderson overheard a doctor he considered a mentor say the child’s parents will ‘be drunk for a week.’ - 9/24/2024
‘A few processes to go through’: LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal in Alberta
The group representing Alberta’s doctors have said the government is dragging its feet in implementing the new deal and putting patients’ lives at risk in the process.
