Healthcare

Canada was one of the first countries in the world to sign contracts with Pfizer and Moderna, in summer 2020. By the fall Ottawa had locked down sufficient advance supply agreements and other [...]

On maps of old, cartographers would mark unknown regions with the Latin phrase hic sunt dracones, here be dragons. Those regions were feared, and myths were created both to warn of unknown [...]

Dr. Richard Musto, the public health and preventive medicine physician and clinical professor at U of C says yes. Community water fluoridation (CWF) is an essential and key element of efforts a [...]

As I back my minivan out of the garage, I roll down the window. My husband, post-call after a night of anaesthetizing patients for emergency surgeries, is blowing leaves around in the yard with [...]

Alberta physicians are closing family clinics, withdrawing from hospital services and even leaving the province. Since the start of 2020, according to the Alberta Medical Association (AMA), [...]

Even before the new Coronavirus had a name, one thing was certain: A human being wasn’t entirely in control of whether they would get it. In those first months, geography mattered most of all. On [...]

Ronald Kustra the executive director of the Association of Canadians for Sustainable Medicare says yes Several years ago I chatted with two passengers seated next to me in the airplane. From [...]

At approximately 9:21 p.m., on May 18, 2015, a couple driving on Edmonton’s Yellowhead Trail called 911 to report a suspected impaired driver. They said he appeared “like someone high on drugs.” [...]

  DR. UBAKA OGBOGU SAYS YES. In March 2016 over 100 people were exposed to measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease—at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. The source of the [...]

It’s a little after 10 o’clock in the morning and Taylor feels like she’s climbing the walls. When her name is called and the door to Lethbridge’s supervised drug consumption site buzzes [...]