Public Health

Sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule in the U.S. are concerning doctors who say Canadian parents might get the false impression that it's unsafe to immunize their children.

The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child—a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.

The court found that while Dr. Ma technically failed to comply with specific OHIP billing rules, it was unreasonable to ignore the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 public health crisis.

The World Happiness Report suggests young people have become Canada’s unhappiest age group, a complete reversal of long-standing trends. Reasons for their woes may be disparate, but a growing field of research posits that the world is once again in a polycrisis—a group of interconnected ongoing crises that all affect one another.

Experts say that although people in their 20s are adults, expecting them to immediately transfer to adult mental health services can be a challenge and programs aimed at helping the transition play a critical role helping them build a stable adult life.

The survey conducted by Leger Healthcare and released on Tuesday says 74% of respondents said they were either ‘very confident’ or ‘somewhat confident’ in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. But about a quarter of respondents said they are less confident than they were before.

New products such as nicotine pouches and heat-not-burn tobacco purport to offer a somewhat safer way of delivering nicotine without any of the harmful smoke or chemicals. So what does nicotine really do to the body?

This comes a day after health officials in the Ottawa area announced that three children between the ages of five and nine had died of influenza A complications in the first two weeks of December.