Healthcare

Data provided by the B.C. government shows that as of Nov. 4 when there were a cumulative 16,135 lab-confirmed cases in B.C., the number of infections among healthcare workers was 1,442. Three months ago, the figure was 822.

While focused on pharmacy, the panelists' stories about working at home with small children, taking care of aging parents, facing marriage breakdown, changing careers, keeping a business going and managing anxiety, depression and burnout during the pandemic could apply to women of any profession.

Effective Nov. 2, 2020, the diagnosis of persistent and well-documented gender dysphoria is included in the list of criteria for MSI coverage for breast reduction.

With the second wave of COVID-19 in full swing, did the return to class for Canadian students help cause it or are cases rising in schools because of the second wave itself?

Designed to help improve clinical management of an important and challenging arrhythmia.

Dr. Gibnet told CBC News Premier Kenney's response to the rising numbers—refusal to enact a lockdown, citing harm to businesses and Albertans' mental health—prompted the letter.

Dr. Lauralee Dukeshire said her choice is entirely based on the actions of Alberta's government which have created a “hostile, toxic and unstable work environment for physicians.”

New technologies like continuous glucose monitoring are one way to keep diabetes patients from needing to be physically present with their physicians to manage their health, said Dr. Jeremy Gilbert, an endocrinologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.