Guidelines

On the surface, there are many compelling reasons for mandating pediatric vaccinations for in-school attendance. While children are far less likely to develop serious illness from COVID-19 than adults, the risk is nonetheless greater than for other vaccine preventable diseases for which there are school mandates in some provinces. 

Omicron, the Geneva-based World Health Organization says, has fueled more cases—90 million—in the world over the last 10 weeks than during all of 2020, the outbreak's first full year.

The Canadian Press used Freedom of Information law to request copies of all written responses sent to Ford after he asked for input from health leaders on a potential mandatory vaccination policy for hospital workers in October.

Every incoming script for a travel vaccine to a community pharmacy presents an opportunity to assess a patient’s preventable travel-related health risks.

The CPSA's discipline tribunal upholds its not-guilty finding in the case of Dr. Keith Oneil Martin—the same doctor found guilty last year of biting a nurse.

The treatment cured Olson and a second patient, according to the University of Pennsylvania doctors, who said it was the first time the therapy had been studied for so long.

Dr. Jeffrey Gennady Kolbasnik of Milton, Ont., was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting a housekeeper at the hospital where he worked.

Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan's proof of vaccination against COVID-19 has run its course, but he wouldn't commit Monday to removing the requirement before the public health order expires at the end of the month.