The Weekly Dose — your essential health briefing

• 2024-12-16

Hi Healthwatchers 👩‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️Some drama this week. A pharmacist dispensed over 28,000 naloxone doses to one person (🚩) and a cancer charity has been claiming to fund research, but its financial records tell a very different story.But first, something pretty heavy. A stellar investigation by the Globe looked into the context...

• 2024-12-01

Hi Healthwatchers 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Nice to be back with you after last week’s break.This week’s top story could reshape the future of corporate responsibility in Canada.A Supreme Court ruling clears the way for B.C. to sue opioid manufacturers. It’s a decision that could also empower provinces to take on other industries, far...

• 2024-11-17

Hi Healthwatchers, 🩺👀👩‍⚕️I’ve been working on some new original stories I think will make a splash (stay tuned). But there’s one story this week that’s moving fast — Canada’s first domestically acquired case of H5N1.