COVID-19

Ontario municipal leaders call for action amid several temporary ER closures
Hospitals have cited critical staff shortages for the closures and organizations representing doctors and nurses have noted that workers are burned out and leaving their roles after two years on the front lines of the pandemic.
Premiers tell federal government to start funding talks over 'crumbling' healthcare
It's been eight months since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to meet with the premiers to address their request for stable, long-term healthcare funding, and that meeting is overdue, Horgan told a news conference at the start of the final day of the premiers' Council of the Federation gathering in Victoria.

Public healthcare system on 'brink of disaster,' Canadian nurses federation says

The federation says its proposals focus on retaining nurses, encouraging them to return to the profession and the public healthcare system, and new measures to recruit and train the next generation.
When the peer reviewer calls, encore

Two decades after his first practice audit, Dr. George Burden was concerned this time wouldn’t go quite as well.
B.C. to offer COVID-19 booster for 12 plus starting this fall, new vaccines expected

The advantage of getting the second booster shot this fall is that new Pfizer and Moderna vaccines better adapted to fight Omicron variants are likely to be available.
Pharmacists: What keeps you going?

In an upcoming feature article, we'll be looking at some of the ways in which pharmacists are finding joy, motivation and reasons for positivity in their pharmacy practice.
Great resignation! Retaining employees in the face of high remote work demand

Canadian companies are scrambling to fill 915,000 job vacancies and more than half of workers would rather quit than return to the workplace full time. What can you do about it?
POLL: How do you feel about the ‘summer wave’ of COVID-19?

Take our weekly news poll and see what other doctors say.
Risk for myocarditis, pericarditis may depend on which mRNA vaccine is used

Ontario study shows while the problem remains rare, Modern had slightly higher rates than Pfizer.
Ontario considering expanding COVID-19 booster shots to all adults amid seventh wave

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore said in an interview with The Canadian Press that he anticipates news on that will come next week on "both whether and how'' to expand the rollout.

Ontario municipal leaders call for action amid several temporary ER closures

Premiers tell federal government to start funding talks over 'crumbling' healthcare

Public healthcare system on 'brink of disaster,' Canadian nurses federation says

When the peer reviewer calls, encore

B.C. to offer COVID-19 booster for 12 plus starting this fall, new vaccines expected

Pharmacists: What keeps you going?

Great resignation! Retaining employees in the face of high remote work demand

POLL: How do you feel about the ‘summer wave’ of COVID-19?

Risk for myocarditis, pericarditis may depend on which mRNA vaccine is used

Ontario considering expanding COVID-19 booster shots to all adults amid seventh wave