Year after year, the Christmas season brings a predictable set of medical issues through our doors or into the emergency departments. Here’s an informal peek at the medical mayhem underneath the Christmas tree.
The survey conducted by Leger Healthcare and released on Tuesday says 74% of respondents said they were either ‘very confident’ or ‘somewhat confident’ in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. But about a quarter of respondents said they are less confident than they were before.
This comes a day after health officials in the Ottawa area announced that three children between the ages of five and nine had died of influenza A complications in the first two weeks of December.
Researchers led by the University of British Columbia analyzed data on almost 20,000 pregnant people infected with COVID between April 5, 2021 and Dec. 31, 2022.
At our walk-in clinic, we see many patients with rashes—usually self-treated without success, recurrent, prolonged, spreading or uncomfortable (sore or itchy).
