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Canadian Blood Services to soon recommend end to ban on gay men donating blood
Ontario will let regions take lead on tougher pandemic measures for now: Ford
Health units covering the Sudbury and Algoma regions in northern Ontario have reinstated measures including business capacity limits in light of spiking cases. Ford's Progressive Conservative government lifted those last month.

Moderna makes submission to Health Canada for COVID-19 vax for kids from 6 to 11

Studies for Spikevax for kids even younger are ongoing.
Refresher on recent CPSBC practice standard updates

Treating family members, ending patient-registrant relationship and more.
Alabama boy named world's most premature infant to survive

Dr. Brian Sims, who was the attending physician, said statistics show that children born so young have virtually no chance of survival, but Curtis beat the odds.
Physiotherapists in community pharmacies? Study asks why not

Following up successful pilot of adding physiotherapists to hospitals, researchers to test impact of availability in pharmacies to assess muskuloskeletal disorders
Rexall partners with Life Support to provide patients with mental wellness assessment and triage tool

Life Support is a tech company that creates tools aiming to help people assess their mental wellness.
Negation driving many Ontario family doctors to distraction

Enrolled or rostered patients in Ontario who go outside their family clinic result in fee deductions for the clinic. It has always been ‘infuriating’ but some say the pandemic and online walk-in clinics has made it worse.
Montreal hospital docs offering $15K bonuses from their own pockets to find respiratory therapists to prevent overnight ER closures

Dr. Fahimy Saoud spent a recent shift in a west-Montreal emergency room idly sitting and waiting for patients she knew would never come.
New Brunswick health minister announces plan to link patients with primary care

Dr. Mark MacMillan, president of the New Brunswick Medical Society, says physicians are encouraged by the minister's announcement.