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Encounters with birds are under new scrutiny after a B.C. teenager tested positive for bird flu in the first presumptive case of human infection occurring in Canada. The patient is in critical condition.

At FMF, two WorkSafeBC doctors offer tips in a panel called: ‘I need a note for work, doc!’

I decided to round three times a week at each home. It cured my burnout and I loved my job again. I retired after 50 years of loving medicine.

Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teenager contracted the illness from exposure to an animal or the environment, although there’s a ‘very real possibility’ that the source will never be found.

Perceived discrimination can stem from a readiness to interpret uncomfortable experiences as biased, even if no actual prejudice exists, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam.

Pediatric asthma is a prevalent chronic respiratory condition, affecting more than 850,000 children in Canada under age 14.

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The physician argued her statements were about theology, not medicine. But the college said her comments were ‘open to misinterpretation.’