The Manitoba government will expand eligibility for the high-dose influenza vaccine this fall to include all adults aged 65 years and older to ensure more Manitobans are protected from severe illness… [+2851 chars]
An injection commonly used to treat osteoarthritis in knees is hardly better than a placebo for relieving pain but increases the risk of harmful side effects, according to research on Thursday. Inje… [+2657 chars]
Less than seven percent of the adult population in the United States has optimal cardiometabolic health, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. … [+4972 chars]
Older age, male sex, residence in a long-term care home, and chronic kidney disease were found to be shared predictors of increased mortality for patients hospitalized with influenza, respiratory syn… [+4984 chars]
When deciding to prescribe a medicine to alleviate depression, doctors and patients face a fraught process of trial and error. After the initial clinical evaluation, a doctors first choice antidepres… [+18627 chars]
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says with the province well into the seventh wave of COVID-19, as early as next week, second booster shots are expected to be made available for everyone age… [+4712 chars]
Two weeks ago, Melanie Paradis got a call from her son's Belleville, Ont., daycare that there was a case of hand-foot-and-mouth disease an illness she had never heard of but one that would have her … [+4668 chars]
Article content More than 1,000 Grade 10 students in the area are at risk for being suspended from school next spring due to a lack of vaccinations for the usual list of childhood diseases. Article… [+2431 chars]
Shortly after the pandemic was declared in March 2020, more than 2 million people in the UK were advised to shield in their homes because they were deemed “clinically extremely vulnerable” to the eff… [+6146 chars]
