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- 6/12/2022
Number of Canadian blood donors plummets to lowest point in a decade during COVID-19
About 400,000 Canadians give blood on a regular basis. - 6/12/2022
The (pharmaceutical) funny pages: You give me fever
You weekly dose of silliness! Take two, or even three, as needed. - 6/12/2022
Canadian heading World Health Organization's fight against monkeypox
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Ottawa before studying medicine at McGill University. - 6/12/2022
B.C. Greens launch hearings on healthcare 'crisis'
With record numbers of British Columbians without a family doctor, the toxic drug crisis and questions about pandemic and lack of integrated mental health care, the Greens say urgent action is needed. - 6/12/2022
Saskatchewan's top doctor given honorary degree from University of Regina
Now, 26 years after he last put on a sash to get his masters at Johns Hopkins University, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer walked on stage Friday to accept his own honorary degree. - 6/12/2022
Canada's COVID Alert app will be discontinued as PCR testing becomes rare
The app was launched in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic began and billed as a way to alert people if they've been in close contact with someone who's been infected with COVID-19, without collecting personal data. - 6/12/2022
Toronto to offer monkeypox vaccine clinics targeting high risk communities
Toronto Public Health says there are 11 confirmed cases in the city as of Saturday, two higher than the provincial total of nine released a day earlier by Canada's chief public health officer when she reported a national case count of 112. - 6/9/2022
Quebec politicians say more time is needed to pass expanded assisted dying bill
Christian Dube says the members of the committee studying the bill have agreed that the subject is too complex to be pushed through without all the necessary time needed to study it. - 6/9/2022
Ontario's chief medical officer of health planning for round of boosters in the fall
In an interview, Dr. Moore says there will be another booster dose available for the people most at-risk, with the potential to then open it up to the general public. - 6/9/2022
Calgary mayor wants province to reverse changes to emergency medical dispatch
Both the city and Alberta Health Services ordered reviews Thursday into why it took an ambulance 30 minutes to get to an 86-year-old woman who was attacked by three dogs and later died.