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Fresh cases to better reflect patients in the clinic: Dalhousie University revises curriculum for pre-clerkship medical students
Medical school rewrites more than 200 cases to ensure students learn about the whole patient.
Chronically ill, but 'dying of poverty'
Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.

What you can do to help your patients–and yourself–deal with the trauma of pregnancy loss

Many doctors don't know how to react or cope when a patient's pregnancy ends in a miscarriage or stillbirth. At the 2022 Family Medicine Forum, Dr. Sarah Gower offered some advice.
Top doctors in B.C. and Quebec say no to mandatory masks

Dr. Bonnie Henry said 90% of people in B.C. have some immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination, infection or both.
Chinese leaders face anger over second child’s quarantine death

Frustration at controls that are confining millions of people to their homes and sparking fights with health workers in China.
Pandemic fatigue, divisive politics pose likely hurdles to return to masking: experts

Health authorities in Canada's two most populous provinces issued strong recommendations on Monday for people to mask up indoors.
CLINICAL QUIZ: Facial lesions

A 71-year-old retired farmer presents with multiple facial lesions. What's the diagnosis?
Half of Quebec nursing students fail September licensing exam, probe launched

Jennifer Gunville, 30, is among the 51% of nursing students in the province who took the September exam and failed to get the minimum passing grade—55%.
NAPRA releases final brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution recommendations

The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities has finalized its recommendations on on brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution in concentrations up to and Including 0.025%.
B.C. health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says no need for 'heavy hand' of mask mandate

Dr. Bonnie Henry said while influenza cases are up, 90% of people in the province have some immunity to the COVID-19 virus through vaccination, infection or both.