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- 5/24/2022
College of Family Physicians of Canada finds its next CEO
The medical officer of health for Peel Region in Ontario is set to become the college's sixth chief executive officer. - 5/24/2022
Germany: Fake doctor gets life in prison for patient deaths
The prosecutors claimed that the woman acted on the basis of an excessive need for recognition. - 5/19/2022
Jagged little bill: Do Anglophone Quebecers need to be worried about Bill 96?
Thousands of protesters took the streets of Montreal last week to call for Quebec government to throw out Bill 96. - 5/19/2022
How rural Canada can attract and retain international healthcare providers: Address discrimination, provide support
Recruiting internationally educated healthcare professionals to work in underserved communities is not new. However, challenges in keeping them in these communities persist. - 5/19/2022
Dementia metaphors help describe the condition, but can also perpetuate stigma and hinder treatment
Some metaphors of dementia include comparisons to zombies or children. We see this when someone refers to the experience of dementia as “regressing to childhood” or as being “the walking dead.” - 5/19/2022
170 Saskatchewan pharmacies can now prescribe Paxlovid
Previously, the medication could only be prescribed through a central team at the province's health authority. - 5/19/2022
Laboratory mice are usually distressed and overweight, calling into question research findings
Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in small, empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown. - 5/19/2022
Canada facing shortage of allergy friendly baby formula, feds say
Health Canada says in a Thursday advisory that supplies of allergy-friendly formulas aren't meeting demand in some provinces.