Martha Porado
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- 8/6/2024
Unknown caller no more: Nova Scotia Health is tackling this common problem
Doctor, do your patients often send your calls straight to voicemail because they don’t know it’s you calling? - 8/1/2024
POLL: Pharmacist, do you take supplements?
Supplements can be incredibly useful for treating patients, for everything from gut health to peripheral neuropathy. - 7/31/2024
In other news 2024 archive: Top stories for physicians
Your one-stop-shop for global headlines for physicians on the clinical to the political, and everything in between! - 7/30/2024
Cut it out: CFPC wants DTC forms off family docs' books for good
The College of Family Physicians of Canada wants to get the 16-page Disability Tax Credit off doctors' piles—and suggests people applying for the DTC should be able to self-attest. - 7/28/2024
RECALL: Various lots of multivitamins and supplements may contain metal fibres
The supplements are sold under a wide variety of brand names including: Kirkland Signature, Life, Option+, Webber Naturals, Wellness by London Drugs, Equate, Wellquest, VegiDay, and Natural Factors. - 7/25/2024
B.C.’s top doctor ends four-year COVID-19 public health emergency
Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday that all remaining restrictions, including the vaccination requirement for healthcare workers, will be rescinded. - 7/25/2024
Ontario expanding access to RSV vaccines for young children, pregnant women
In late 2022, Ontario’s four main pediatric hospitals became overwhelmed with really sick young children, a situation that forced them to cancel surgeries and redeploy staff to intensive care units and emergency departments. - 7/25/2024
Nova Scotia verifying accuracy of lengthy family medicine wait-list
Nova Scotia Health are telephoning the roughly 160,000 people on the registry to make sure they know how to access ‘different options for care.’ - 7/25/2024
As ticks move north, Canadian doctors need to watch for more than just Lyme
Blacklegged ticks are disease vectors carrying infections you might know less about. - 7/25/2024
POLL: Doctor, do you take supplements?
Supplements can be incredibly useful for treating patients, for everything from gut health to peripheral neuropathy.
