Public Health

What do you do when a goose dies in your backyard, amid concerns about avian flu?
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.
B.C. breaks vaccination records, with 82,000 COVID-19 and flu shots in one day
Record numbers of people in British Columbia have received updated vaccinations against COVID-19 and flu, as the province ramps up its immunization campaign for respiratory illness season.

If you could change one thing about your practice, what would it be?

Four Quebec physicians tell us what they’d like to change to improve their practice, their workplace environment and the healthcare system.
Listeria can make you sick up to two months after you consume it, experts say

Listeria can make people sick up to two months after they eat or drink contaminated products, which can pose a challenge in identifying the source of illness quickly, experts say.
Why increasing Canada’s health budget for preventive and social care makes sense fiscally and medically

By increasing investment in public health today, we can decrease ‘curative care’ investment in the future, and simultaneously improve the health of the population.
Hospitals using waterless bath products as more than 200,000 Nova Scotians remain under boil-water advisory

Hospitals are reminding folks with open wounds to avoid showers.
Health Canada, PHAC and other gov’t teams work with influencers to combat misinformation—and the feds say it’s working

Most of the social-media money is going towards institutions that have public service announcements to put out about health, travel or other topics.
Looking to recover healthcare costs: B.C. launches class-action lawsuit against makers of ‘forever chemicals’

Attorney General Niki Sharma says the province is the first Canadian jurisdiction to sue makers of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS chemicals.
Children and heat: Extreme temperatures mean everyone from public health pros to primary care needs to pay more attention

Schools are still in session, and as Ontario experiences a lengthy heatwave, a pediatrician talks about the impact of extreme heat on kids, especially those in classrooms with no air conditioning.
Helping healthcare pros screen for gender-based violence

New research aims to help fulfil recommendations made by commission that examined the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

What do you do when a goose dies in your backyard, amid concerns about avian flu?

B.C. breaks vaccination records, with 82,000 COVID-19 and flu shots in one day

If you could change one thing about your practice, what would it be?

Listeria can make you sick up to two months after you consume it, experts say

Why increasing Canada’s health budget for preventive and social care makes sense fiscally and medically

Hospitals using waterless bath products as more than 200,000 Nova Scotians remain under boil-water advisory

Health Canada, PHAC and other gov’t teams work with influencers to combat misinformation—and the feds say it’s working

Looking to recover healthcare costs: B.C. launches class-action lawsuit against makers of ‘forever chemicals’

Children and heat: Extreme temperatures mean everyone from public health pros to primary care needs to pay more attention

Helping healthcare pros screen for gender-based violence