Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says the program aim is to connect people in crisis to the appropriate services in their community and take pressure off stretched police resources.

Last year, a surge in RSV cases flooded U.S. hospitals with wheezing children. There are no vaccines for babies yet, though Pfizer and other companies are working on them.

The cause of death was from complications of a small bowel obstruction tied to previous bariatric surgery, the autopsy showed.

The machines dispense pharmaceutical-grade opioid drugs directly using a biometric scanner, so that people using them don’t need to go to a pharmacy or clinic. 

The province issued a memo to the Ontario Medical Association, outlining the plan.

The research, published in the medical journal Pediatrics on Monday, is drawn from emergency room visits to U.S. and Canadian children’s hospitals.

Teresa Zurberg, who runs the program for Vancouver Coastal Health, said the hunting breed of pooches can smell the slightest presence of C. difficile on surfaces and equipment.

Recruiting health workers from countries on the WHO’s safeguard list without robust and reciprocal benefits for the countries sending them does not meet ethical standards, authors say