Healthcare

Reducing the viral load in the oral cavity can potentially mitigate the spread of the virus within the body and curb transmission to other people, according to the authors.

What Canadian healthcare needs is feedback from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, data managers, economists and patients (and their families).

Effective Jan. 21, pharmacists should take note of these recommendations for cetirizine or its salts.

Last March, the Globe and Mail and CBC News reported on allegations that some pharmacists in B.C. were paying vulnerable patients around $50 a week to use their services.

Nurturing the culture—of your store, your organization, your family, and even your house league team—is a shared responsibility.

As a physician with a shared cultural background, Dr. Jabir Jassam found that building trust with such youths is essential.

Regular physical activity is critical to improving health at any age, including people in their 80s and 90s—and doctors should be prescribing it more often to their oldest patients, a new paper published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says.

The Canadian Pediatric Society provides updated evidence-based advice as incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome is rising.