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- 6/13/2022
Federal government to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates: sources
The new rules are expected to come into effect on June 20, though two government sources close to the decision, who were granted anonymity to speak about matters they were not authorized to discuss publicly, say the rules for foreign nationals coming to Canada will not change. - 6/13/2022
New drug price regulations could save Canada billions of dollars: PBO report
Health Canada first announced in 2019 that the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board would change how it sets a price cap on medicines in Canada in an effort to lower excessively expensive drug costs by changing the countries Canada compares prices with. - 6/13/2022
High school students across Canada to be trained on how to administer naloxone
The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be added to the CPR and automated external defibrillator training it offers for free in high schools across the country. - 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. - 6/12/2022
Pfizer COVID-19 appears effective for kids under 5: U.S. panel
Late last week the FDA posted a similar analysis of Moderna's shots for children under 6. - 6/12/2022
Health Canada approves experimental ALS drug still under U.S. review
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said in a press release Monday that Canada is the first country in the world to give the regulatory greenlight for Albrioza as a treatment for the devastating neurodegenerative disease.