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- 11/18/2021
POLL: Is the Ontario optometrist strike affecting your patients and practice?
The start of September saw Ontario’s roughly 1,700 optometrists withdraw services covered by the province’s health plan to protest the government’s refusal to increase insurance payments to at least cover the cost of providing services. - 11/18/2021
Ontario doctor considering zero-tolerance policy says his staff are going home in tears because of verbal abuse from patients
Dr. Alan Drummond’s clinic has been open for in-person appointments throughout the entire pandemic. - 11/18/2021
Canada has thrown away at least one million COVID-19 vaccine doses: survey
The Canadian Press asked health ministries across the country to provide how many doses had to be disposed of because they had expired or for other reasons. - 11/18/2021
Hospitals playing supply-chain 'whack-a-mole' as everything from surgical gloves to crutches becomes harder to get
Hospitals are attempting to catch up on postponed surgeries, but they're having a terrible time sourcing even the most basic supplies. - 11/18/2021
Minister Bennett says national opioid crisis plan to be informed by proposals in B.C.
B.C. has sought to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs by seeking from Health Canada an exemption from the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. - 11/18/2021
Saskatchewan to roll out children's vaccine clinics in schools
There are 115,000 children in Saskatchewan who just became eligible. - 11/17/2021
Ontario students to take home 5 rapid COVID tests over winter break
Ontario students will be sent home for the December break with five rapid antigen COVID-19 tests each as part of the province's plan to ramp up testing over the holidays. - 11/17/2021
Feds to announce approval of COVID-19 vaccine for kids on Friday
It is also set to announce the easing of some COVID-19 measures at the Canadian border. - 11/17/2021
‘Off-label’ use is common in medicine. Why are the COVID-19 vaccines any different?
A bioethicist and a philosopher explore how prohibiting off-label use of COVID-19 vaccines in kids departs from ethical and legal norms. - 11/17/2021
Modelling suggests COVID pandemic's fifth wave could be Saskatchewan's worst
Chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab says hospitalizations and cases have plateaued at a high rate.