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- 9/28/2023
Judge greenlights class action against Bausch Health on Cold FX products
Filed in 2019, the suit notes that packaging and social media profiles for the products include statements such as clinically proven and ‘proven by science’ to help reduce cold and flu symptoms. - 9/28/2023
Siksika man files human rights complaint against Alberta Health Services, hospital
The complaint filed by Benedict Crow Chief of Siksika Nation says his wife, Myra Crow Chief, died in April 2022, because staff and doctors at the Strathmore District Health Services hospital failed to disclose to them that she had active abdominal bleeding. - 9/28/2023
Masks to be worn in B.C. health facilities as flu and COVID cases increase
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday the masks must be worn by all healthcare workers, volunteers and visitors in patient-care areas starting Oct. 3 to guard against spreading illnesses to those who are vulnerable. - 9/28/2023
Food insecurity among Indigenous kids is a ‘public health crisis,’ doctors say
Family physician Dr. Rebekah Eatmon sees parents in tears, frustrated that they can’t provide enough healthy food for their children. - 9/28/2023
Joyce Echaquan’s community fights for change to health system three years after death
It has been three years since Joyce Echaquan died in hospital after filming staff insulting her. - 9/28/2023
Guidelines for including Indigenous people in clinical trials underway: report
Indigenous researchers from the University of Alberta are leading the process to create the new guidelines. - 9/28/2023
Let’s not get complacent about reconciliation
As I prepared my children’s orange shirts earlier this week, I couldn’t help but reflect on what a different world this conversation now lives in. - 9/27/2023
Health Canada authorizes updated Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine
The mRNA vaccine targets the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant that is circulating in Canada. - 9/27/2023
2 accused of false Alzheimer’s diagnoses get prison terms for fraud convictions
The U.S. Justice Department has said Sherry-Ann Jenkins was not trained or licensed to provide any medical care but presented herself as a doctor and billed patients for unneeded treatments. - 9/27/2023
Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan host duelling healthcare recruiting events
Yvette Coffey, president of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Registered Nurses Union, was unimpressed by the duelling recruiting events.