Ontario has likely entered a new wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron BA.5 subvariant, the province’s science advisory table said Wednesday, citing exponential growth in most public health units. The COVID-19 Science Advisory Table points to several key indicators that it says signal the beginning of a wave, little more than a month after the end of most public […]
Federal officials say a COVID-19 vaccine for Canada’s youngest children could be approved as soon as this month. Health Canada tweeted Tuesday that it expects to reach a decision by mid-July on whether to approve Moderna’s shot for children between six months and five years old. Moderna has applied for its vaccine to be given in two doses, each a […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold its ban on sales of Juul Labs’ e-cigarettes, with the health agency saying late on Tuesday that it would do an additional review of the company’s marketing application. Juul had won a temporary reprieve a couple of weeks ago after a US federal appeals court stayed the FDA’s ban, […]
In 2012, Savita Halappanavar sought treatment at a hospital in Galway, Ireland; she was 17 weeks pregnant, in pain and miscarrying. Her repeated requests for an abortion were ignored because of the presence of a fetal heartbeat, according to her husband. She died of septicemia — or blood poisoning by bacteria — 2½ days later. Halappanavar’s death is viewed as […]
The first annual International Black Health Conference is coming to Halifax in October. The three-day conference will give health professionals, educators, policymakers and community members from across Canada and the United States the chance to talk about the best ways to address and improve health disparities in Black communities. “We want to look at the disproportionate structural inequalities that impact […]
The pressure on the province’s college of physicians to make it easier to access the abortion pill is ramping up, as hundreds of doctors have signed an open letter calling for the removal of several restrictions that are in place in Quebec, but not in the rest of Canada. The abortion pill has been available and free in Quebec since […]
Canada is about to toss more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because it couldn’t find any takers for it, either in or outside of Canada. A statement from Health Canada says 13.6 million doses of the vaccine expired in the spring and will be thrown out. A year ago, Canada said it would donate almost […]
A pair of abortion doulas in southwestern Ontario say Canadians shouldn’t take access to safe, legal abortions for granted because there are still barriers to care that are difficult to overcome, including time off work, a lack of financial resources and the distance from urban -centered clinics. Christal Malone of London and Jennifer Surerus of St. Thomas help make access […]
If you’re the kind of person who tracks your period, fitness, sleep or other health metrics with an app, privacy experts have a warning for you: your data could be a gold mine for advertisers, hackers, or law enforcement. There have been calls on social media for American women to delete period tracking apps from their phones since the US […]
Olivia Armstrong is recovering from surgery — as well as a harrowing ordeal of simply getting to the operating table. At around 4:45 am on June 25, the 21-year-old went to the emergency room at the Red Deer Hospital because of abdominal pain. “If I stayed still, then it was not as bad. But as soon as I’d move again, […]
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