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- 10/5/2023
Are people getting old COVID vaccines because they don't realize the fresh version isn't here yet?
Has public health communication lost the thread? I spoke with one man who booked an appointment for his fall booster, and only after receiving it did he find out it wasn't one of the new vaccines targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. - 10/4/2023
Case report: Do I need surgery?
An infected bite proves particularly concerning for a patient at Dr. Robert Dickson's walk-in clinic. - 10/4/2023
Preoperative radiation may not be needed in treatment of some rectal cancer
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be enough. - 10/4/2023
‘Extremely fluid’: Liberals and NDP haven’t yet agreed on promised pharmacare bill
The Liberals promised to table pharmacare legislation this fall as part of the supply-and-confidence deal the government struck with the NDP. - 10/4/2023
Ozempic and similar drugs linked to gastrointestinal conditions: Canadian researchers
Researchers examined a random sample of health insurance claim records of 16 million patients in the United States between 2006 and 2020 for use of semaglutide drugs. - 10/3/2023
Ontario investigates fee-for-access nurse practitioner walk-in clinic
Several local media reports say the South Keys Health Center is set to soon open, with the membership fee on top of billings for individual services from the clinic's nurse practitioners. - 10/3/2023
Novavax touts non mRNA COVID vaccine, future of domestic production remains uncertain
The new formulation is awaiting Health Canada approval. - 10/3/2023
Free online resource your chronic pain patients should know about
Learn what the Power Over Pain portal—funded by Health Canada and created in collaboration with multiple Canadian institution—can provide for your patients. - 10/3/2023
Thousands of U.S. healthcare workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing about 85,000 of the health system’s employees nationally, approved a strike for three days in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and for one day in Virginia and Washington, D.C. - 10/2/2023
Clinicians ‘all alone’ when integrating digital health advances
We have all this data—what are we doing with it?