Healthcare

Ottawa Public Health advised health workers in a memo last week that virus testing is no longer available to everyone in a timely manner due to a surge in demand.

One more year syndrome. That's what Dr. Matt Poyner calls it. The tendency, as financial independence approaches, to seek problems, weak spots and reasons to worry.

Monitoring algorithm for pharmacists facilitates switching from originator biologics to other originator biologics, biosimilars or Janus kinase inhibitors.

Associated with a 26% raised risk of a new heart failure diagnosis, according to a study published in ESC Heart Failure.

The classical debate over whether medicine is a job or a calling got spicy recently after a tweet by a doctor with tens of thousands of followers.

While many were able to secure spots—the government said more than 125,000 third-dose appointments were booked through the province's online portal as of 10 a.m—many others expressed frustration at not being able to find shots in their region or having to settle for appointments several weeks from now.

Moderna said lab tests showed the half-dose booster shot increased by 37 times the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies able to fight Omicron.

When a surgeon decided to delay a patient’s scheduled (non-urgent) operation recently because she had a cough and no one could get a straight answer about her vaccinations status, she became belligerent, threatening to complain to the government that she was being refused healthcare.