Liberals vow to fight healthcare privatization — is that in their platform?
  • Apr 28, 2025

Liberals vow to fight healthcare privatization — is that in their platform?

  • Canada Healthwatch
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  • Nick Tsergas
RFK Jr.’s FDA forces costly new vaccine trial on Novavax, threatening the company's survival
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  • Apr 27, 2025

RFK Jr.’s FDA forces costly new vaccine trial on Novavax, threatening the company's survival

  • Wall Street Journal
Driving with COVID linked to higher crash risk
  • Apr 24, 2025

Driving with COVID linked to higher crash risk

  • Axios
Unvaccinated kids face up to 20 times higher risk of long COVID, analysis finds
  • Apr 23, 2025

Unvaccinated kids face up to 20 times higher risk of long COVID, analysis finds

  • MedicalXpress
RFK Jr. wants to axe the CDC’s COVID vaccine recommendation for children
  • Apr 23, 2025

RFK Jr. wants to axe the CDC’s COVID vaccine recommendation for children

  • POLITICO
Novavax says its COVID shot is on track for full FDA approval after delay
  • Apr 23, 2025

Novavax says its COVID shot is on track for full FDA approval after delay

  • Associated Press
Is Public Health Really Dead?
  • Apr 23, 2025

Is Public Health Really Dead?

  • The Tyee
U.S. ‘whistleblower’ site targets Canadian doctors providing gender-affirming care
  • Apr 22, 2025

U.S. ‘whistleblower’ site targets Canadian doctors providing gender-affirming care

  • Canada Healthwatch
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  • Nick Tsergas
Analysis suggests COVID-19 diminishes sperm quality
  • Apr 22, 2025

Analysis suggests COVID-19 diminishes sperm quality

  • CIDRAP
Paxlovid may cut risk of stroke for at least 3 months after COVID diagnosis
  • Apr 21, 2025

Paxlovid may cut risk of stroke for at least 3 months after COVID diagnosis

  • CIDRAP
'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites
  • Apr 18, 2025

'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites

  • npr
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health
  • Apr 18, 2025

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

  • Mark Ungrin
Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID
  • Apr 18, 2025

Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID

  • CIDRAP
Paring hospital PPE down to just N95s kept hospital staff safe, slashed plastic waste and costs, study finds
  • Apr 18, 2025

Paring hospital PPE down to just N95s kept hospital staff safe, slashed plastic waste and costs, study finds

  • CIDRAP
The simple metal box that could change the world
  • Apr 18, 2025

The simple metal box that could change the world

  • Healthy Debate
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  • Blake Murdoch, David Elfstrom, Zack Deis
Research links COVID to poor kidney outcomes in US youth
  • Apr 16, 2025

Research links COVID to poor kidney outcomes in US youth

  • CIDRAP
Saving lives with Manitoba-made vaccines
  • Apr 16, 2025

Saving lives with Manitoba-made vaccines

  • University of Manitoba
What makes a good public health leader?
  • Apr 13, 2025

What makes a good public health leader?

  • Lyne Filiatrault, Arijit Chakravarty & David Fisman
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines
  • Apr 11, 2025

154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

  • Nature
Using a study design from the past, researchers once again show COVID is airborne
  • Apr 10, 2025

Using a study design from the past, researchers once again show COVID is airborne

  • CIDRAP
RFK Jr.’s purge of FDA staff spares people working on COVID vaccine lawsuits
  • Apr 10, 2025

RFK Jr.’s purge of FDA staff spares people working on COVID vaccine lawsuits

  • KFF Health News
Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing
  • Apr 09, 2025

Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing

  • Canada Healthwatch
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  • Nick Tsergas
Invasive strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S., CDC study finds
  • Apr 08, 2025

Invasive strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S., CDC study finds

  • NBC News
Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems?
  • Apr 07, 2025

Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems?

  • Canadian Affairs
COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told.
  • Apr 04, 2025

COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told.

  • Flannery Dean
Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks.
  • Apr 04, 2025

Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks.

  • the Grind
COVID re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults: preprint
  • Apr 03, 2025

COVID re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults: preprint

  • CIDRAP
Five years later, B.C. among most supportive of COVID measures. Skepticism persists among Albertans, younger men
  • Apr 03, 2025

Five years later, B.C. among most supportive of COVID measures. Skepticism persists among Albertans, younger men

  • New Westminster Record
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  • Mario Canseco
COVID may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year
  • Apr 03, 2025

COVID may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year

  • CIDRAP
Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some Albertans
  • Mar 31, 2025

Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some Albertans

  • CBC
COVID boosters help avoid breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people: study
  • Mar 31, 2025

COVID boosters help avoid breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people: study

  • McGill
Welcome to the Pre-School Plague Years
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  • Mar 31, 2025

Welcome to the Pre-School Plague Years

  • The New Yorker
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  • Kathryn Schulz
Respiratory season ends, B.C. launching spring COVID vaccination campaign
  • Mar 29, 2025

Respiratory season ends, B.C. launching spring COVID vaccination campaign

  • Canadian Press
Supreme Court refuses to hear case about Saskatchewan's 2020–2021 COVID restrictions
  • Mar 29, 2025

Supreme Court refuses to hear case about Saskatchewan's 2020–2021 COVID restrictions

  • Regina Leader-Post
RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in COVID funding amid wave of top-level departures
  • Mar 26, 2025

RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in COVID funding amid wave of top-level departures

  • ars technica
Early use of sotrovimab may protect against long COVID
  • Mar 26, 2025

Early use of sotrovimab may protect against long COVID

  • CIDRAP
Long COVID office ‘will be closing,’ Trump regime announces
  • Mar 25, 2025

Long COVID office ‘will be closing,’ Trump regime announces

  • POLITICO
Spring dose of COVID vaccine available in Nova Scotia next week, for some
  • Mar 24, 2025

Spring dose of COVID vaccine available in Nova Scotia next week, for some

  • CBC
5 years after COVID started, parents and experts say the impact on kids remains
  • Mar 24, 2025

5 years after COVID started, parents and experts say the impact on kids remains

  • CBC
McMaster leads creation of Canada’s first guidelines for Long COVID
  • Mar 21, 2025

McMaster leads creation of Canada’s first guidelines for Long COVID

  • McMaster University
Japanese antiviral ensitrelvir shows promise in preventing household COVID spread
  • Mar 19, 2025

Japanese antiviral ensitrelvir shows promise in preventing household COVID spread

  • CIDRAP
Under the microscope: Looking at B.C.'s wastewater surveillance for viruses
  • Mar 18, 2025

Under the microscope: Looking at B.C.'s wastewater surveillance for viruses

  • CBC

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