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- 2/23/2022
KEEP UP QUIZ: How well did you follow healthcare news during the week of Feb. 21?
Major vaccine news came out this week, as well as Olympic scandal and further debate of the use of private facilities to help handle Canada's surgery backlog. - 2/23/2022
What do we know about BA.2, the sublineage of COVID-19's Omicron variant?
BA.2 was detected in Canada as early as December, according to Health Canada data, but a report last week from the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group suggests the newer Omicron strain could be spreading faster in parts of the country than the current dominant version, BA.1. - 2/23/2022
Oversight committee rules out mysterious brain disease in New Brunswick
The oversight committee of six neurologists was appointed last year after questions were raised about the existence of a mystery brain syndrome that had alarmed residents and stumped the medical community. - 2/23/2022
Great saves: In a heartbeat
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Hector Baillie discusses the joy of finally treating an ailment that plagued a patient their whole life. - 2/23/2022
Ontario suggests ways to reduce ambulance off load delays
Ambulance offload delays, when paramedics wait in an emergency department for a patient to be transferred to the care of a hospital, have been exacerbated by the pandemic and have at times meant some regions are left with no available ambulances. - 2/23/2022
Great saves: In the neck of time
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. - 2/23/2022
So what do plastic surgeons do all day?
A look into the typical workday of Dr. Christine Nicholas, a plastic surgeon who specializes in breast reconstruction and melanoma in the Toronto area. - 2/23/2022
Health Canada authorizes made in Canada plant-based COVID-19 vaccine from Medicago
The two-dose, plant-based vaccine is authorized for use in people aged 18 to 64.