In a previous interview, Ken Drysdale and I discussed his 89-page report titled Investigation into Criminal Allegations Concerning COVID-19 Response. His findings regarding the statistics for pregna… [+3172 chars]
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading global cause of death in children under age 5 and lacks an effective vaccine. In a study from the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hosp… [+5167 chars]
A new study that looks back on the first and second waves of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 says that travel restrictions barring entry to Canada did drastically reduce the number of COVID-19 cases en… [+4456 chars]
Efforts to prevent and curb substance use in schools through public health engagement (PHE) appear to be effective where use of cigarettes and cannabis is high but had the opposite impact in schools … [+5379 chars]
A drug is available for monkeypox patients who have or who are at risk of severe disease, but doctors say they continue to face challenges getting access to it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration… [+11297 chars]
At a time of stalemate in the fight against AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches new guidelines on pre-exposure drugs, underlining how the new long-acting prophylaxis, which can be admi… [+1257 chars]
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading global cause of death in children under age 5 and lacks an effective vaccine. In a study from the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hosp… [+4637 chars]
Comment on this story Eric Sawyer feels a familiar fear. In the gay hamlet of Fire Island Pines, where he owns a bungalow, men have been swapping gossip about ghastly symptoms, scanning each other f… [+11729 chars]
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a child recently died in Ghana after contracting the Marburg virus, bringing to three the deaths from the outbreak declared in this Afri… [+1458 chars]
The cells in your body are not all the same. Each of your organs has cells with very different functions. For example, liver cells are top-notch secretors, as their job requires them to make and expo… [+5225 chars]
COVID-19 vaccination is now available for children under five in BC, which is welcome news for many parents. BC began administering doses to children six months and up on Tuesday, August 2, after th… [+1234 chars]
MONTREAL Long-acting, injectable cabotegravir (CAB LA) continues to show superiority over oral daily tenofovir diphosphate plus emtricitabine (TDF-FTC) as preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, acco… [+4627 chars]
