Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Americans, Canadians are warned not to eat romaine lettuce (Update)
Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak.
Nov 20, 2018
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Medications
Five years of legal cannabis in Canada: Mixed success
Five years after cannabis legalization in Canada, it appears to be a mixed success, with social justice benefits outweighing health benefits, write authors in a commentary published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Oct 10, 2023
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Medical economics
Income inequality and COVID-19: We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat
By now, many are aware that the pandemic has affected lower-income groups the most within countries, including in Canada. But what most do not know is that income inequality—the economic distance between higher and lower-income ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Vaccination
Sanofi and GSK to provide 72 million vaccine doses to Canada
French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi and Britain's GSK have promised up to 72 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the Canadian government, which has already signed similar agreements with several American companies.
Sep 22, 2020
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Vaccination
Canada buys additional 20 million Pfizer vaccine doses
Canada announced Tuesday a deal to secure an additional 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which would allow for more than half of Canadians to be inoculated before summer.
Jan 12, 2021
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Health
Salmonella in cantaloupes sickens dozens in 15 states, U.S. health officials say
U.S. health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
Nov 18, 2023
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Health
Cannabis legalization and link to increase in fatal collisions
Legalization of recreational cannabis may be associated with an increase in fatal motor vehicle collisions based on data from the United States, and authors discuss the implications for Canada in an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Medical economics
As U.S. buys up remdesivir, 'vaccine nationalism' threatens access to COVID-19 treatments
At the end of June, the United States government announced that it had secured the entire supply of remdesivir, an antiviral drug that shortens hospital stays for COVID-19 patients, until September.
Jul 6, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Colon cancer treatment costs 2x more in US than Canada
People diagnosed with advanced colon cancer pay twice more per month for treatment in the United States than in Canada, but do not live any longer, researchers said Friday.
Jun 1, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
More male babies than expected born to Indian-born women in Canada, research papers find
More male babies than expected are born to Indian-born women living in Canada who already have two or more children, according to a study published today in the journal CMAJ Open.
Apr 11, 2016
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