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- 12/5/2021
6 solutions from Canadian doctors to the physician shortage
Canada continues to have a physician shortage. Here Canadian doctors outline ways to improve the access challenges in this country. - 12/5/2021
Legal column: Imaginary patients
Believe it or not, treating patients who don’t yet exist is an actual issue in malpractice law. - 12/5/2021
PMHx: The extra-billing crisis
The adoption of the CHA in 1984 led to the Ont. doctors strike of 1986. - 12/3/2021
What an Ontario academic found researching forced sterilization of Indigenous women for more than a decade
There have historically been more than 1,200 Indigenous people forced to lose their reproduction capabilities, with the vast majority of them women, at Indian Hospitals across Canada, including Camsell Hospital in Edmonton. - 12/2/2021
Canada buying up to 1.5 million courses of oral antiviral drugs to fight COVID-19
The government has signed up for an initial one million courses of antiviral treatment from Pfizer, once Health Canada endorses their safety and efficacy. - 12/2/2021
Testing better than travel ban 'whack a mole,' infectious disease specialist says
Dr. Zain Chagla points to the start of the pandemic when Canada's travel policies targeted China and Iran, and COVID-19 rapidly entered Canada from the United States and western Europe. - 12/2/2021
NACI recommends boosters for people over 50
The advisory group has also strengthened its recommendation for several other groups, and now strongly suggests boosters for people who received a full series of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccine, those in or from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities and front-line health workers. - 12/2/2021
Serious health outcomes from mRNA vaccines no different in early vs later post-vaccination: study
Study of 6-million vaccinated individuals looked at 23 possible serious outcomes. - 12/2/2021
Judge won't dismiss 25 murder counts against Ohio doctor
One of the biggest cases of its kind ever brought against a U.S. healthcare professional will proceed toward trial.