COVID-19 SURGE: 271-bed field hospital and morgue in downtown Vancouver ready for first patients
A field hospital in the Vancouver Convention Centre is ready for its first patients when hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases.
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Not one passenger has gotten COVID-19 on board WestJet planes: airline, YVR statement
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Less than one percent of passengers who’ve flown on WestJet flights since...
Read MoreVancouver company gets emergency U.S. approval for rapid COVID-19 test, now awaits Health Canada approval
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN After being granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug...
Read MoreB.C. government ups the ante on COVID-19 contact tracers; halfway to it’s goal of another 608
B.C. will soon have about 900 contact tracers following up on every positive COVID-19 case. The government announced in the summer that it would temporarily double the number of such health professionals. The hiring is now going on.
Read MoreFamily doctors are as frazzled & frustrated as their patients through the COVID-19 pandemic
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Family medicine is in a state of crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic...
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Airports in Helsinki and Dubai use dogs to detect COVID-19
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinarian Medicine made...
Read MoreGag Orders: Why an election during a pandemic is bad for public health
BC government communications teams are denying information about COVID to journalists during the election campaign. This is preposterous during a pandemic.
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Medical regulator shuts down private COVID-19 and antibody tests in B.C.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. issued a cease and desist order to a private, mobile lab company that offers in-home or office COVID-19 tests along with antibody tests. The company has not faced the same action in Alberta and Ontario.
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Airlines – United, American, Lufthansa, Air Canada and WestJet – will offer pre-flight, rapid COVID-19 tests
Sept. 29 Update: United Airlines has announced that beginning October 15, it will offer rapid...
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COVID-19 long-haulers: ailing and frustrated, they plead for more medical attention
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Dr. Bonnie Henry is a saint to many for the way she’s led the COVID-19...
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Doulas for better deaths in homes, hospitals and long term care facilities
POSTED BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Across Canada, many thousands of long term care facility...
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Vancouver startup poised for ventilator orders ahead of COVID-19 second wave
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a Vancouver startup company assembled a team...
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Website Author: Pamela Fayerman
I'm an award winning Canadian journalist for nearly four decades. I’ve worked at six daily newspapers, and for 25 years, I was the medical/health issues reporter for The Vancouver Sun and other newspapers in Canada’s largest newspaper chain. My professional development has been assisted with numerous fellowships awarded by the Association of Health Care Journalists, New York Times Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Knight Science Journalism. I’ve received training in various aspects of medical journalism at Columbia University (neuroscience), MIT (medical evidence and digital science journalism), Mount Sinai Medical Center (aging) and Dartmouth College medical school (Medicine in the Media).
I graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in journalism and attended Queen’s University law school on a one-year legal journalism fellowship from the Canadian Bar Association.
I’m the recipient of several prestigious journalism awards as well as two major grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, one for a series on patient navigators and another for a series that focused on knowledge translation as it pertains to fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer.
My goal for this website is to share valuable information that will help readers learn about health care, research and medical advancements.
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