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- 10/4/2024
QUIZ: Managing stable COPD in primary care
Are you up to date with the latest recommendations on treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Find out here! - 10/3/2024
‘Gulf is just too big’: strike vote looms for Alberta nurses as contract talks falter
David Harrigan, the United Nurses of Alberta director of labour relations, said informal mediation meetings last month were productive but said the gap between the two sides seems too big to bridge. - 10/3/2024
Toronto hospital to open permanent supportive housing apartments for homeless people
The University Health Network has partnered with Fred Victor, a non-profit housing organization, to provide 51 permanent homes with health and social supports to homeless people who use its hospitals the most. - 10/3/2024
P.E.I. oyster parasite has spread to majority of bays and rivers around the Island
Kathy Brewer-Dalton, a director with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, told a provincial legislative committee today that testing of the Island’s waterways has yet to be completed. - 10/3/2024
Official confirms Ontario child died of rabies after bat exposure
Dr. Malcolm Lock, the acting medical officer of health for the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit, confirmed the death during a board of health meeting. - 10/2/2024
Canadian government not ordering Novavax’s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year
PHAC says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of its updated protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, which far exceeds the uptake by Canadians last year. - 9/27/2024
B.C. company sanctioned by U.S. Treasury Department wants Health Canada licences back
The chemical firm claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged involvement in importing precursor chemicals that could be used in illicit drug production. - 9/26/2024
Manitoba government says it's on track to hiring 1,000 new healthcare workers
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says the addition of the new staff will help shorten hospital wait times that have been hammered since the COVID-19 pandemic. - 9/26/2024
Disability rights groups launch Charter challenge against MAID law
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.