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Mashup Score: 6Doctors, academics, activists call for removal of top Vancouver doctor from her role over COVID-19 claims - 12 month(s) ago
Vancouver’s biggest health authority is facing demands to remove its top doctor from her role over claims she made about COVID-19 during a radio interview earlier this month.
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Mashup Score: 3When should women get mammograms? - 12 month(s) ago
New guidance out of the U.S. is advising women to get screened for breast cancer starting at 40 instead of 50.
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Mashup Score: 9Resignations and retaliation: B.C. health-care workers see increasingly 'toxic' workplaces - 1 year(s) ago
There are more signs that tensions are high in British Columbia’s health authorities as an outspoken doctor on Vancouver Island has faced professional repercussions and nearly all the critical care doctors at a northern hospital have resigned.
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Mashup Score: 2Grief, desperation, resolve: Families of B.C. patients plead for better safeguards for assisted deaths - 1 year(s) ago
Many Canadians are unaware that our legislators are seeking another dramatic expansion of medically assisted dying legislation, so the families of two British Columbia patients are raising the alarm to warn of the existing shortcomings and blind spots.
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Mashup Score: 7B.C. experts call for more to be done to counter COVID-19 misinformation about vaccines, ivermectin - 2 year(s) ago
Two Vancouver medical experts are calling for more to be done to counter the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, after a fresh warning was issued about taking ivermectin.
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Mashup Score: 41
A Dutch man accused of tormenting British Columbia teen Amanda Todd via online threats has been found guilty of all charges he faced in connection with the case, a jury ruled on Saturday.
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Mashup Score: 2
Several disabled people in B.C. and across Canada have raised concerns about changes to the rules around Medical Assistance in Dying, a process where a doctor or nurse practitioner can assist some individuals, at their request, in ending their lives.
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Mashup Score: 5
A year-long tug-of-war has resulted in Vancouver Coastal Health producing some of the COVID-19 outbreak reports it repeatedly insisted did not exist.
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Mashup Score: 2
Officials have now identified a beaver as the cause of a June outage which left many residents of northwestern B.C. without internet, landline and cellular service for more than eight hours.
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Mashup Score: 1'Easier to let go' without support: B.C. woman approved for medically assisted death speaks out - 2 year(s) ago
A B.C. woman is speaking out about her experience accessing ‘death care’ with more ease than health care at a time when federal policymakers are considering further expanding access to medical assistance in dying.
Source: British ColumbiaCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
Doctors, academics, activists call for removal of top Vancouver doctor from her role over COVID-19 claims https://t.co/E860q9qJyr by @bexinVcity “Public health leaders cannot broadcast unscientific misinformation that puts the public at risk." “Dr. Daly’s public statements are… https://t.co/olV0w1dWVA