Public Health & Preventive Medicine

New blood donation rules allow more gay men to give in U.S.
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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Sex? Sexual intercourse? Neither? Teens weigh in on evolving definitions and habits

High school students are having less sexual intercourse. That’s what the studies say. But that doesn’t mean they’re having less sex.
N.S. man files human rights complaint after late husband denied wish to donate tissue

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.”
Mpox no longer a global emergency, WHO says

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.
‘A series of system failures’: Misprescribed and ‘dumped’ at the hospital’s doors

A healthcare nightmare began for this Vancouver woman with slow-release morphine.
Cerebral palsy often misused as cause of death

True underlying cause of death downplayed.
Two solutions Docs of BC want immediately to mitigate ED crisis happening ‘across the province’

Doctors of BC's Section of Emergency Medicine says the crisis at Langley Memorial Hospital is not an isolated situation and special measures are needed to address emergency department backlog now.
Doctor politicians by the numbers

Counting up how physicians involve themselves in Canadian politics.
An unusual RSV season ahead for 2023—after nirsevimab but before a vaccine

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.

New blood donation rules allow more gay men to give in U.S.

Poll: Do you still require your patients to wear masks in your clinic or hospital?

Sex? Sexual intercourse? Neither? Teens weigh in on evolving definitions and habits

N.S. man files human rights complaint after late husband denied wish to donate tissue

Mpox no longer a global emergency, WHO says

‘A series of system failures’: Misprescribed and ‘dumped’ at the hospital’s doors

Cerebral palsy often misused as cause of death

Two solutions Docs of BC want immediately to mitigate ED crisis happening ‘across the province’

Doctor politicians by the numbers

An unusual RSV season ahead for 2023—after nirsevimab but before a vaccine