Pfizer’s Paxlovid expected to overshadow Merck’s molnupiravir, with higher efficacy in preventing hospitalization/death in high-risk outpatients with mild/moderate COVID-19.
Governments and regulators must step up today to support a profession that's been pushed to its limit as we enter a new stage of the pandemic, say the Canadian Pharmacists Association.
Half of Ontarians who died of an opioid overdose in the early stages of the pandemic had interacted with the healthcare system in the month before their deaths, a new report shows.
The Quebec government is looking for public sector workers to temporarily fill more than 2,000 healthcare service aide positions, the Health Department said Monday.
It was the first case of COVID-19 to reach Pangnirtung. The Baffin Island hamlet of about 1,400 people had also been dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak since late November.
A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Rwanda on Saturday included the billionth dose supplied via the COVAX program, the U.N. health agency said.
