COVID-19

Home HPV tests increase uptake of screening tests
Kits and info sent to homes better than education about screening alone
Jesse’s predictions for pharmacists in 2024
The beginning of a new year often has people looking hopeful at the possibility of what may be. Yet we know the vast majority of people who set New Year’s resolutions drop them within days or weeks of starting them. And they do this year after year.

Forget COVID and influenza: Let’s just call it ‘fall immunization,’ Alberta tells its health authority

Documents reveal the Alberta government wanted no references to COVID or influenza in its immunization campaign ads and instructed the AHS to limit information on vaccine benefits and efficacy.
Being overweight impairs the immune response against COVID-19

Excess weight alters the immune response after infection, but not after vaccination, study shows.
Novavax vaccine for COVID XBB variant now ready for distribution

Doses of Nuvaxovid have been delivered to the Public Health Agency of Canada, Novavax said in a press release.
Bioactive coating would increase the effectiveness of masks

A Quebec-Brazilian research team has developed a bioactive coating for surgical masks that not only blocks viruses but also destroys them.
Smith says it wasn’t her decision to nix job offer to Alberta public health doctor

Alberta premier denies being responsible for blocking the hiring of Dr. Deena Hinshaw for a position at the Indigenous Wellness Core of Alberta Health.
ChatGPT is mostly wrong in answering drug questions, study shows

Almost three-quarters of drug-related questions that pharmacists reviewed were wrong or incomplete.
Respiratory coinfections less common in older children with COVID-19

But rates increase with decreasing age, putting those under 2 years of age at greatest risk of more severe illness.
Can I have a word with you?

Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year is "authentic.” Here Dr. Howard Goldstein offers up suggestions for the medical word of the year.

Home HPV tests increase uptake of screening tests

Jesse’s predictions for pharmacists in 2024

Forget COVID and influenza: Let’s just call it ‘fall immunization,’ Alberta tells its health authority

Being overweight impairs the immune response against COVID-19

Novavax vaccine for COVID XBB variant now ready for distribution

Bioactive coating would increase the effectiveness of masks

Smith says it wasn’t her decision to nix job offer to Alberta public health doctor

ChatGPT is mostly wrong in answering drug questions, study shows

Respiratory coinfections less common in older children with COVID-19

Can I have a word with you?