globalnews.ca - We’ve come a long way when it comes to awareness around annual flu shots, but a new poll suggests almost 40 per cent of Canadians don’t plan on getting the shot this year. According to the recent pol…
cbc.ca - Tensions flared at Toronto city hall on Monday as a large group of anti-vaccination parents protested against the city's decision to adopt a new vaccination strategy. The recommendation by Dr. Eileen…
bbc.co.uk - Labour is to announce a pledge to abolish prescription charges in England at its party conference next week. Prescriptions are already free in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In England the NHS…
statnews.com - The World Health Organization issued an extraordinary statement Saturday raising concerns about possible unreported Ebola cases in Tanzania and urging the country to provide patient samples for testi…
bbc.co.uk - A surgeon who "put financial interests before patients" has been struck off by the General Medical Council. Bobby Qureshi cultivated a high media profile as an eye expert and featured patients June B…
davidharrisjr.com - The USA is not the only country in which abortion is a common practice. It’s also something done routinely for any reason – and legally – in China. In the following report, a Chinese couple had decid…
theguardian.com - The number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth has fallen by more than a third since 2000, according to new UN figures, but the rate of decline remains way off track to meet global targets to …
theguardian.com - More patients than ever before had to wait more than four hours for A&E treatment last month as winter put unprecedented strain on the NHS. Hospital A&E units in England dealt with just 76.1% of pati…
spiked-online.com - ‘Eco-anxiety’ has become the latest fashionable malaise. Apparently it is afflicting many children. That kids as young as four and five are feeling anxious about the climate is not surprising – after…
nzherald.co.nz - Children of Asian descent have reportedly been denied a measles vaccination because they were not Māori or Pasifika. National list MP Melissa Lee told Parliament during question time that she had bee…
