Healthcare

Provincial governments are watching vaccination rates closely as pharmacies across the country provide more first and second doses thanks to increased supply.

New guidance from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization Thursday said Pfizer or Moderna is preferred as a second dose.

As health care professionals, pharmacists have a unique and important role that is multifaceted and ever changing.

Health Canada grants interim authorization to Roche’s casirivimab and imdevimab.

Previously, NACI had said AstraZeneca recipients could choose whether to get a second dose of the same vaccine, or an mRNA vaccine.

All adults in the province who got their first dose on or after May 10 can book an earlier second shot starting the week of June 28.

Former AHS North Zone medical officer Albert de Villiers, 52, was charged with one count of sexual assault and sexual interference.

Editorial by Dr. Roger Ladouceur describes litany of unethical behaviours by physicians, but its publisher, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, says it does not share the author's views.