Patient Lifestyle

Cybersecurity of mobile devices: My top 12 recommendations
After a damning report on a spyware product, Pegasus, Dr. Artur Gevorgyan says smartphones are far from being robustly protected from malware as most of us think. Here's his tips.
B.C. walk-in clinic sent unvaccinated boy with sore wrist to ER, sparking questions about how to handle unvaxxed patients
The question of whether the walk-in clinic doctor was justified has sparked debate.

CFPC creates guide to integrating planetary health into family medicine training

Usually, the college's yearly Guide for Improvement of Family Medicine Training focuses on a range of topics.
Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall? Ontario’s 1982 legislation spurred organized opposition
People calling hospitals, feed stores seeking drug used to de-worm horses in bid to treat COVID-19

Some in the U.S. are going as far as filing lawsuits to try to force hospitals to treat their loved ones for COVID-19 with the unapproved drug.
Pharmacists mark International Overdose Awareness Day with community events

As owner of Queen City Wellness Pharmacy in Regina, Kususko and her team have distributed more than 10,000 Narcan kits.
I love family medicine but I'm worried and frustrated

Dr. Alykhan Abdulla says he believes family medicine is being disrespected and threatened and that it is now false to describe family medicine as a 'calling.'
Two thumbs down: Blogger to pay $30,000 for defamatory post on surgeon who performed her breast augmentation

B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that Rosa Campagna Deck—who complained that her surgery left her with a 'torpedo tit'—misrepresented the facts in her reviews.
Case report: After a fight?

Another intriguing case Dr. Robert Dickson has just seen in his clinic involving a patient recently out of jail and concerned about a rash.
Study shows immunotherapy extends disease-free survival in post-surgery kidney cancer patients

Results from a large clinical trial suggest pembrolizumab could be used to prevent recurrence of renal cell carcinoma after kidney removal.

Cybersecurity of mobile devices: My top 12 recommendations

B.C. walk-in clinic sent unvaccinated boy with sore wrist to ER, sparking questions about how to handle unvaxxed patients

CFPC creates guide to integrating planetary health into family medicine training

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall? Ontario’s 1982 legislation spurred organized opposition

People calling hospitals, feed stores seeking drug used to de-worm horses in bid to treat COVID-19

Pharmacists mark International Overdose Awareness Day with community events

I love family medicine but I'm worried and frustrated

Two thumbs down: Blogger to pay $30,000 for defamatory post on surgeon who performed her breast augmentation

Case report: After a fight?

Study shows immunotherapy extends disease-free survival in post-surgery kidney cancer patients