Infectious Diseases

New rules took effect at the end of Jan. that allow them to prescribe vaccines for Hep A & B, shingles, HPV and chickenpox

The start of a new decade seems like a good time to check in with pharmacy groups across Canada to find out what's happening with the profession and what goals and challenges the various pharmacy associations have set for the future.

Discussed: Transmission patterns; city-wide quarantine as a public health experiment; China's invaluable contributions; the panic and conspiracies; understanding the unknowns

Advances in social media and technology have offered some good, some bad and some ugly pockets of information

The federal government also announced that it has chartered a plane to evacuate 160 Canadians who've been trapped in China due to strict quarantine measures—but not all will be able to leave

The head of Ontario's Registered Nurses' Association says the panic seen during the 2003 SARS epidemic does not exist now

Primary care doctors are not expected to conduct testing for the new coronavirus, but they do have a duty to report cases that meet the criteria for PUI

A spokesperson for the school board said one letter was issued in response to 'misinformation' circulating in the community