Doctors in Canada’s FIFA World Cup host cities say they’re concerned the already strained system will buckle if a sudden, unexpected surge slams emergency departments during the games.
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first at-home test that can detect three common infections in women: gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis.
A visually dramatic case with a challenging, uncommon scenario came to Dr. Robert Dickson’s walk-in, where parents decided which diagnosis they would prefer.
Sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule in the U.S. are concerning doctors who say Canadian parents might get the false impression that it's unsafe to immunize their children.
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child—a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.
Canada is used to looking to the United States as a source of health and scientific information, but the federal health minister said that is no longer the case.
