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One year on from when lockdowns began in the west, specialists reflect on how these two fields have responded to the crisis.
Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
An average healer in the rural South African town where the study was done experiences about 1,500 occupational blood exposures in their lifetime.
A year after it became clear that COVID-19 was becoming a pandemic, there is still no cure, but doctors have several innovative treatments. Some are keeping patients out of the hospital entirely.
The responsibility should not simply lie with employees who are working even harder.
Regional and inter-provincial travel have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in small and rural communities. Restricting people’s movement is more challenging than it seems on the surface.
The government has a legal duty not to exacerbate inequalities in its policies, but this is getting forgotten during the pandemic.
As the world has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other microbial foes are waging war on humans. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a growing threat. But viruses may defeat them.
Years of vaccine research tells us that, if side effects are going to occur, they normally occur within the first months after getting a vaccine.
There has been growing discontent with many local authorities and calls by concerned citizens for the municipalities to be dissolved.
Websites that crash. Appointments that fill up within seconds. Scheduling your COVID-19 vaccine shouldn’t be this hard. A few states have found a better way.
The pandemic has made many of us acutely aware of the daily risks we need to take. The ancient Greeks often did not leave risky choices up to individuals alone.
While big and small events on the 2021 arts calendar are still shifting or disappearing altogether, a sharper local focus could save the day.
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
The virus is always present in nature and when circumstances allow, it may jump from one species to another.
Developing a national disaster response plan for the pandemic was only step one.
With the vaccines now being administered at sites around the US, it is important to address misinformation surrounding the effort.
Cities have long resisted the public demand for street food vendors, but the pandemic may reverse those restrictions for good.
‘Long COVID’ – in which people have symptoms lasting more than a few weeks – is turning out to be very common. People hospitalized for COVID-19 are at highest risk, but they aren’t alone.
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