Public Health

The survey conducted by Leger Healthcare and released on Tuesday says 74% of respondents said they were either ‘very confident’ or ‘somewhat confident’ in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. But about a quarter of respondents said they are less confident than they were before.

New products such as nicotine pouches and heat-not-burn tobacco purport to offer a somewhat safer way of delivering nicotine without any of the harmful smoke or chemicals. So what does nicotine really do to the body?

This comes a day after health officials in the Ottawa area announced that three children between the ages of five and nine had died of influenza A complications in the first two weeks of December.

According to Canadian Blood Services, the demand for immunoglobulin is rising every year, but 70% of Canada’s supply comes from international sources—mostly the U.S.

Licensed in 2003, BabyBIG is the brand name for human botulism immune globulin, an IV medication that uses antibodies from volunteers vaccinated against botulism to help babies too young to fight the disease on their own.

With headlines about high flu rates in the Southern Hemisphere, unprecedented outbreaks in Japan, the UK bracing for a "cruel winter," and a new H3N2 variant that emerged after this year's vaccine was already locked in, it's not surprising that vaccine confidence may be on shaky ground. Here's how to respond to patient hesitancy.

Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark.

Danish researchers examined the risk of myocarditis or pericarditis with high-dose inactivated influenza vaccine versus standard-dose inactivated vaccine.