Infectious Diseases

Health Canada has extended the shelf life of a number of at-home rapid COVID-19 antigen tests kits.

Provide practical, comprehensive, evidence-based guidance for the diagnosis and treatment of foot infections in people with diabetes.

Immune cells are better primed in lymph nodes that sit closer to first vaccine site.

Tdap/Tdm, shingles, and pneumococcal vaccines show 25% to 30% reduced risk.

Pilot study in Montreal hospital focused on individual nurses' hand hygiene by using an automated monitor.

B.C. study finds no benefit in reducing death or COVID-related hospitalization in lower-risk individuals, including those 70 years or older who were not moderately or severely immunocompromised.

Update on when new COVID-19 vaccines will be available in provinces and territories.

The mRNA vaccine targets the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant that is circulating in Canada.