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• 1/9/2023

  Nova Scotia man wants answers after wife dies following seven hour ER wait

  Allison Holthoff died New Year's Eve after she was taken to the emergency room at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst, N.S.
• 1/9/2023

  How to stay tax efficient when donating to charity

  A look at charity tax credits, tax deductions, and other tax-saving ways to donate to the causes you value.
• 1/9/2023

  Toronto hospital network says systems restored, outage not a cyberattack

  Initial reports about the outage sparked concerns about a possible cybersecurity breach after Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children suffered a ransomware attack last month.
• 1/9/2023

  Clinicians shouldn’t underestimate risks of antidepressant withdrawal: study

  Some antidepressants appear to be more linked to withdrawal syndrome than others. 
• 1/8/2023

  Toronto hospital issues 'code grey' as digital systems go down

  The UHN outage come after the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto issued a “code grey” last month when a ransomware attack affected its operations.
• 1/8/2023

  'Kraken' subvariant name beats 'alphabet soup' moniker for XBB.1.5: biologist

  Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph dubbed the latest subvariant Kraken, the name of a Scandinavian mythological sea creature.
• 1/8/2023

  New Doctors of BC prez vows to push against forms, work on other issues

  A Q&A with Dr. Josh Greggain, the new president of Doctors of BC, on the rollout of the new FP longitudinal care payment model and ensuring the burden of forms on office-based specialists is examined too.
• 1/8/2023

  B.C. to reactivate its COVID emergency operations centres to prepare for more illness

  Health Minister Adrian Dix said Friday they've been coping with an unprecedented increase in demand in the healthcare system.
• 1/8/2023

  B.C. paramedics, government announce tentative deal after talks with veteran mediator

  A joint statement Saturday from the Health Employers Association of B.C. and the Ambulance Paramedics and Ambulance Dispatchers Bargaining Association says the tentative deal was reached with the assistance of mediator Vince Ready.
• 1/8/2023

  Feds must enforce vaping penalties to protect kids: advocates

  The Tobacco and Vaping Products Act aims to walk the narrow line between giving people who smoke a safer alternative to combustible tobacco products and protecting youth and people who don't already smoke from taking up vaping.