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- 2/2/2023
Japanese chemical company to close Quebec COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Medicago
The Japanese chemical company said Thursday it would stop marketing the Medicago-produced Covifenz vaccine, which is plant-based and was approved by Health Canada one year ago for adults aged 18 to 64. - 2/2/2023
POLL: Do you have a side hustle?
A Canadian survey last autumn found that one in three docs have a second job. Do you? - 2/2/2023
Eye drops recalled after U.S. drug resistant bacteria outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week sent a health alert to doctors, saying the outbreak included at least 55 people in 12 states. One died and at least five others had permanent vision loss. - 2/2/2023
QUIZ: Test your knowledge of travel medicine
With COVID concerns waning and the weather freezing, some of your patients are heading south for sunshine and sand. How should they prepare? And what vacation-related ailments might they bring to your clinic? - 2/1/2023
Ontario in 'full support' of feds' national healthcare data push
The province says it will continue to work with other provinces and territories to get support for a national healthcare data system because if performance isn't measured, gaps in care can't be identified and addressed. - 2/1/2023
Health workers are facing record levels of violence
The Fraser Health authority issued a record 2,370 “Code Whites” across 14 facilities in the 2021-22 fiscal year, more than triple the number of calls from 2014-15. - 2/1/2023
B.C.’s new family doctor payment model takes aim at ‘crisis’ in primary care
More than 1,000 family doctors have so far signed onto British Columbia’s new compensation model, the health minister said as the plan came into effect Wednesday. - 2/1/2023
Liberals table bill delaying medically assisted dying expansion to March 2024
Justice Minister David Lametti introduced the bill seeking to delay extending the eligibility until March 17, 2024. - 2/1/2023
Alcohol-related healthcare visits in Ontario spiked during pandemic: study
Lead author and Ottawa Hospital family physician Dr. Daniel Myran said the data, collected between March 2020 and May 2021, also show a 6% increase in hospitalizations. - 2/1/2023
Case report: A structural rash?
Dr. Robert Dickson questions whether the extensive hardware in a patient's leg is reducing circulation and contributing to infection.