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The UK government has an option to act boldly after Rishi Sunak’s latest budget.
The coronavirus pandemic has meant homes rather than offices have become workplaces. Companies need to respond to these new cybersecurity threats.
With the right preparation, specialist destinations can benefit from an expected increase in demand.
Recent federal mask mandates on all public transit have burdened bus drivers with difficult and sometimes dangerous duties to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
The government of Ontario’s announcement of funding of a wearable contact tracking device for workplaces raises concerns about privacy and surveillance.
With outdated delivery systems at many hospitals and clinics, mistakes can lead to costly duplication of services and poor patient outcomes. But there are ways to fix the current system.
Nearly a half-million Americans die every year from smoking and tobacco use. Might a little-used legal remedy save those lives?
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.
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Viral Immunology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph
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Professor, Biology, York University, Canada
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Dean and Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Immunology and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, University of Guelph
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Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Physician, McMaster University
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Postdoctoral fellow, McGill University
