Infectious Diseases

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

Led by a husband-and-wife duo–one a pharmacy professor and the other a chemistry professor–the research team has now set its sights on finding existing drugs to treat COVID-19 and other SARS coronaviruses.

While a majority of Canadians are eagerly rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated against COVID-19, there are those who are hesitant—not because they don’t believe in vaccines, but because they harbour a fear of needles.

Aims to provide the best patient care, while avoiding unnecessarily prolonged antibiotic therapy and preserving antibiotics for future use.

Aims to provide the best patient care, while avoiding unnecessarily prolonged antibiotic therapy and preserving antibiotics for future use.

Pfizer has announced the start of a large study to test the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children below the age of 12 years.

Americans tell personal stories from polio outbreaks in the 1940s and 1950s and remember the relief when a vaccine was developed.