Great to see real evidence generated that supports healthcare professionals practicing to full scope as a way to optimize use of limited healthcare resources while simultaneously improving outcomes www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

N.S. pharmacists cut tick bite ER visits in half with prescriptions to prevent Lyme: study

With Lyme disease concerns growing in Nova Scotia, a team of researchers has found that pharmacist prescriptions have cut tick bite-related ER visits in half.

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BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

Woohoo! Congratulations @parlcharlie.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read it!

New advisory from the FDA that levodopa/carbidopa, can lead to B6 deficiency over time, particularly with doses of levodopa >1000 mg. www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-s...

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Drug Products Containing Carbidopa/Levo

FDA Drug Safety Communication

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📣 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Iris Gorfinkel: We’re blaming our overstuffed ERs, excruciating surgery waits and family doctor deserts on exactly the wrong people

As wait times soar and millions struggle without a family doctor, the old “blame the immigrants” narrative has made a comeback in Canadian politics and media. This kind of rhetoric

thestar.com

@kathygriffin.bsky.social you said "Bless you" to me at your Ottawa show tonight! Does that mean we are friends now?

As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...

Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region

Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.

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Love articles like this that highlight a hidden masterpiece. Nobody knows it's a thing! airmail.news/issues/2025-...

The Mystery of the Veiled Virgin

Giovanni Strazza’s exquisite sculpture is considered among the world’s greatest. So why has it been sequestered inside a Newfoundland convent?

airmail.news

The Maldives 🇲🇻 became the first country in the world to eliminate mother to child transmission of: -HBV -HIV -Syphilis #IDSky www.who.int/news/item/13...

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTC...

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Joseph Marcus@josephmarcusid.medsky.social · last yr.

Today Kenya 🇰🇪 was declared free of African trypanosomiasis with the last locally acquired case in 2009. It is the 10th country to eliminate this disease. #IDSky www.who.int/news/item/08...

Antimicrobial resistance is going to be a major crisis if we don't make serious efforts to improve antimicrobial stewardship globally. Inappropriate use of antimicrobials, including inappropriate dose/duration, is a major problem. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

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Canada likely to lose its measles eradication status this month. Completely avoidable, but here we are: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?

Experts blame waning vaccination rates and disinformation for outbreaks that have continued for nearly a full year

theglobeandmail.com

How is the O-Train still SO TERRIBLE. Where are the adults? How can people be such negligent public stewards? Had to wait 15 mins for line 2. Got to Bayview and had to wait 7 mins for a train coming in 2 mins. Not to mention how insanely expensive it is. At this point you may as well just walk.

Excited to be going to CSHP PPC in a few days for the first time since I was a resident in [date redacted]. Looking forward to connecting with people!

Change takes time. Happy to see infrastructure gradually evolving to reflect the scope the full scope of practice for pharmacists: www.walmartcanada.ca/news/2025/04...

Walmart Canada launches in-store pharmacy clinics in Canada, enhancing Canadians’ access to affordable healthcare

Walmart Canada is proud to announce the opening of its first pharmacy clinic today in St. Catharines, Ontario, with additional clinics opening later this year.

walmartcanada.ca

1. This past #flu season was a really hard one, especially on kids. 12 more pediatric flu deaths were reported to #CDC last week, bringing the total for the year so far to 216. That's the highest single season total for a non-pandemic year since CDC started collecting pediatric flu death data.

Measles is here in Ottawa. Check to see if your vaccines are up to date! ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Did you visit Food Basics or Costco last week? Ottawa health unit warns of possible measles exposure

Ottawa Public Health is also warning people who visited a local Food Basics grocery store and a Costco they may have been exposed.

ottawacitizen.com

The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe. That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM

Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...

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I realize that we are living in the darkest timeline and there are enough things already to worry about, but we really need to ring the alarm on measles and vaccination in Canada. Over 100 cases in a week with 42 in hospital is a major concern and action is needed now: www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Ontario measles case count hits 572, up by more than 100 in past week

Measles cases keep climbing in Ontario, as the province counts more than 100 new cases in the past week.

ctvnews.ca

AMMI has released a statement on antiviral use in HPAI in the context of some oseltamivir resistance. Oseltamivir remains preferred as most H5N1 viruses remain susceptible: ammi.ca/wp-content/u...

For those watching the news from yesterday, "a prior" is an input in a Bayesian model of previously known info to narrow the possible outputs to those that are more likely, vs a frequentist approach where all outcomes are possible in an analysis as it's not informed by any previous studies.

Tell me more about this job of gentleman and how does one apply?

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2y ago

Somehow only now discovering that the Library of Parliament's listing of Mackenzie King's previous occupations includes "gentleman." I assume we lost that job to outsourcing or automation.

I love these kinds of origin stories that highlight the impact of disease on broader population trends. Worth the read!

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fashion, but make it TB "The height of this so-called consumptive chic came in the mid-1800s, when fashionable pointed corsets showed off low, waifish waists and voluminous skirts further emphasized women’s narrow middles." Old article but fascinating stuff. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

What's the Bluesky equivalent term for a tweet?

Measles guidance provided by RFK Jr. includes information about administering vitamin A to measles patients, so I wanted to share this helpful graphic from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Vitamin A alone does not prevent measles. Vaccination does. @nfidvaccines.bsky.social

Measles cases are on the rise in Canada, coinciding with a trend over several years of declining vaccination coverage. Now 119 cases in ON, most unvaccinated. More than in the past decade combined.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is being proactive in preparing Canada for the potential use of human vaccines against avian influenza in nonpandemic situations.

Preliminary Canadian guidance on vaccination against avian influenza

NACI issues preliminary guidance on human vaccination against avian influenza in nonpandemic situations.

canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca

Using the snowy weekend to try out the new Matlock show. I can get behind being able to acquit someone of murder in 2 hours, but come on, 2 meals at Eataly for $40?! How unrealistic is that?

Helpful review on the epi of ocular complications of mpox. Still a need to have stronger data on this front as there is significant heterogeneity. How do Canadian clinicians manage these complications as trifluridine drops are not commercially available in Canada? academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Ophthalmic Manifestations of the Mpox Virus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis reveals conjunctivitis as the most common ophthalmic complication of Mpox, with substantial prevalence rates for k

academic.oup.com

Just started curating my accounts to follow and happy to see a lot of my favourites have migrated here!