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POLL: How much demand do you anticipate for the new bivalent COVID-19 vaccine?

Are you seeing a surge in interest, or are you noticing signs of 'vaccine fatigue?'
Feds lift border vaccine mandates, mandatory masks on planes and trains

The cabinet order maintaining COVID-19 border measures will not be renewed when it expires on Sept. 30.
HIV spike among B.C. drug users associated with COVID 19 lockdown, research says

The study, published in Lancet Regional Health, found that fewer people started HIV antiretroviral therapy or undertook viral load testing under lockdown.
The (medical) funny pages: How did rounds go?

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Foreign docs to be allowed to come to Canada through federal express entry system

In a review of the system, it jumped out at federal officials that many doctors couldn't use it because they are often self-employed.
Revoked: Doctor rented an apartment for patient he had sexually abused

Former Ontario doctor Dr. Ali Mohammad Abdul-Razak Al-Khafaji is now working in the small Saskatchewan town of Radville, under practice restrictions that call for a female practice monitor during appointments with female patients.
The (medical) funny pages: Do you keep the bug?

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Canadian study builds on link between long COVID and autoimmune diseases like lupus

The research was based on blood samples from patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between August 2020 and September 2021.