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- 11/23/2021
B.C.'s sick leave law will provide workers five paid days minimum starting Jan. 1
Labour Minister Harry Bains says the five paid days are fair and were determined following a consultation period that generated 60,000 responses. - 11/23/2021
Rule out cervical cancer with the HPV detection test
Dr. Marc Steben is head of the Canadian Network HPV Prevention and answers questions on the most recent clinical advances. - 11/23/2021
Provincewide healthcare impacts less likely during current COVID wave: Ontario Health
Intensive care occupancy has now been hovering at around 130 patients for weeks, with 137 people in critical care as of Wednesday. - 11/23/2021
Investigation fails to find source of legionnaires' disease outbreak in New Brunswick
Seven people were hospitalized and one person died after the outbreak was declared in early August. - 11/23/2021
New toolkits for addressing violence, harassment in healthcare settings
The Public Services Health & Safety Association has added three new toolkits to its existing roster of five. - 11/22/2021
Jury holds pharmacies responsible for role in opioid crisis
Three retail pharmacy chains recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties, a federal jury said Tuesday. - 11/22/2021
Steps pharmacies are taking to make symptomatic COVID-19 testing as safe as they can
Some pharmacies are making changes so they can perform testing on people with COVID-19 symptoms indoors. But while the weather might be getting a little more frightful outside, other pharmacists insist such testing is a purely outdoor activity. - 11/22/2021
Video: Four things to know before specializing in neurosurgery
Dr. Amit Persad, a neurosurgeon at the University of Saskatchewan, about the four things that he wishes he had known about the field before beginning his career. Also: videos of him running down: Five reasons to love neurosurgery and five ways to navigate the emotional weight of neurosurgery. - 11/22/2021
Two charged in alleged COVID-19 security breach of Ontario's immunization system
Police say they began investigating last week after the Ontario government received reports of spam text messages. - 11/22/2021
Do I really need to be making the case for a third dose?
We're sitting on a stockpile and wasting doses at the same time. This wastage and surplus is occurring while much-coveted third doses of the vaccine are being restricted in most jurisdictions.