Healthcare

NACI strongly recommends that adults who are or will be immunocompromised should receive two doses to prevent herpes zoster and its associated complications.

Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy’s budget, tabled Thursday, contains two lines on the Ontario Autism Program, including touting the new funding.

The Health Department says the cost of two doses of vaccine is about $400—too high for some seniors who want to receive them.

Choosing between a job you love and one that will provide an adequate paycheque is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

So why aren’t we using them to their full scope of practice?

Marshall Smith has filed a statement of claim alleging defamation against former Alberta Health Services head Athana Mentzelopoulos, the Globe and Mail, and an unidentified person believed to be a former AHS board member.

See what your colleagues say.

The hospital in the small Ontario community of Walkerton usually wasn’t busy but it suddenly got inundated with patients experiencing severe diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The first cases were reported on May 17, 2000.