Infectious Diseases

Health Minister Bruce Fitch says the funding initiative builds on government efforts to expand the role of pharmacists.

The updated guidelines do away with a requirement that men who have sex with men abstain from sex for three months prior to giving blood.

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Liam Dee died from a rare and aggressive cancer last Nov. 10. Adonation screening form from that date says his tissues were declined due to his “homosexual status.”

Last July, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, to be an “extraordinary” situation that qualified as a global crisis.

Despite a probing discussion at Dr. Robert Dickson's clinic, the cause of a patient's chest rash remains a mystery.

Access to the new monoclonal antibody for prophylactic treatment will probably be tightly controlled, but parents may ask for it after an early RSV season last year.

As more pharmacists are able to prescribe contraception across the country, The Canadian Pharmacists Association has released its first video about sexual and reproductive health.