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- 7/11/2021
Canada to donate 17.7M doses of AstraZeneca and raise money for global vaccination
The federal government is donating 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and is asking Canadians to give their own money to help other countries get needles into arms. - 7/11/2021
Decriminalizing drug use is a necessary step, but it won’t end the opioid overdose crisis
Media, policy-makers, advocates and the public claim that decriminalization will make drug use safer and save lives. But can it? - 7/11/2021
Health Canada pulls pre rolled joints contaminated with yeast, mould and bacteria
Exposure to unwanted yeast can really harsh a strain's mellow. - 7/11/2021
Feds setting up guidelines to include national security considerations into university research funding criteria
Security questions around scientific research have drawn renewed attention after two scientists were escorted from the high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg in July 2019 and then fired in January this year. - 7/9/2021
Do pharmacists have a problem talking about the opioid crisis?
Patients want to have these conversations with us, maybe it’s time that we overcome our own barriers to talking about difficult topics and treat them like the matter-of-fact issues that they are. - 7/8/2021
Case report: A painful knee
A nine-year-old boy had not reported knee pain until his parents were critical of the fact that he was lagging behind during walks—and noticed that perhaps he was turning his left foot outwards at times. Another case Dr. Robert Dickson has just seen in his clinic. - 7/8/2021
Who gets to define professionalism?
What happens when our imperative to speak out runs up against barriers? When we encounter hostile interlocutors, when we are responded to disrespectfully by anonymous citizens or by colleagues? - 7/8/2021
The walls of Ontario's COVID-19 field hospitals are starting to come down
One such tent hospital never actually saw any patients.