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The science advisory table is advising public health units or neighbourhoods where new COVID-19 cases are near 35 per 100,000 people per week and where there is sustained exponential growth, to carry out weekly voluntary screening of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people in elementary schools.

Pharmacist's experience as patient with long COVID has given him new insights into compassionate and effective patient care

The health units recommended that everyone should limit indoor social gatherings in private dwellings to no more than 10 people, and all attendees aged 12 and older should be vaccinated.

Health Minister Paul Merriman says the goal is to eliminate the backlog by achieving a three-month wait time by 2030.

The current law, adopted in 2014, set out strict criteria that include informed consent of a patient until their death, meaning people who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and could no longer provide informed consent do not have access.

Terms and conditions for social media use should make it clear that threats and intimidation are not acceptable and will have consequences, said Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association.

It's too soon to know how vaccines will hold up against omicron.

A new app encourages data sovereignty in Indigenous communities by allowing them to collect and own their own health and social data.