Study challenges assumptions that warmer weather drives COVID-19 cases down. Sunshine is another story.
Will COVID-19 incidence drop in summer? What the research shows.
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Lawsuit against Dr. Henry and BC government makes for strange allies. Including a former premier.
Former premier of Newfoundland, Brian Peckford, donates money to lawsuit against B.C. government over COVID-19 pandemic emergency measures
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The actual evidence for vitamins and supplements in COVID-19 prevention, treatment
GUEST POST BY DR. SCOTT LEAR The pandemic has led to a surge in supplements as people hope...
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How long will vaccines protect us from COVID-19? Vancouver researchers get grant to find out.
Canadian researchers probing how long immunity lasts after COVID-19 infections and vaccinations.
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As vaccinations resume, health pros cautioned about selfies on social media
Doctors and other healthcare pros warned about posting selfies of themselves getting their COVID-19 vaccinations.
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COVID-19 cases rise 34% among B.C. healthcare workers in past month alone
COVID-19 cases surge again in healthcare workers.
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Lawsuit against Dr. Henry and B.C. government seeks to overturn COVID-19 public health orders
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Dr. Bonnie Henry and the provincial government have been served with a lawsuit...
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Another clever use for shipping containers in the pandemic era: safe visits with loved ones in long term care
A converted shipping container for visits with elders in long term care.
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Investigations over into hospital doctors who jumped queues for 2nd COVID-19 shots
Physicians who jumped queues to get their COVID-19 shots have been investigated. Dr. Bonnie Henry refuses to say if she’s gotten her second dose.
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Pre-surgery testing being used to curb COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals
Hospitals experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks now testing surgery patients before they go under the knife
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People who got influenza immunizations still tested positive for flu. Here’s why.
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Influenza has been M.I.A. across the northern hemisphere this winter,...
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Vancouver startup bet it would sell a bunch of ventilators. It was wrong.
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, there was generalized panic about whether...
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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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