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• 2025-06-12

Hi Healthwatchers, 👩‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👨‍⚕️This week brought some new developments in healthcare crisis-land, from condos acting like health insurers to a provincial regulator’s warning that professional licensing shortcuts are putting patients at risk.Our top story: a so-called “harmless” virus that most of us caught in childhood might be contributing to multiple sclerosis...

• 2025-05-27

Welcome back Healthwatchers,A lot's changing in U.S. vaccine policy, and not for the better. Let’s start there, then work our way through a wild week in health news.

• 2025-05-05

Hi Healthwatchers,Charging patients for publicly insured care is illegal. So is steering them toward unnecessary, add-on services. This week, we’re looking at proposed provincial legislation that would finally enforce these rules. It's an Ontario story, with national relevance.Also in this issue: a U.S. vaccine plan experts say is both dangerous...