4. The Politics of Health

Startling news of a legal advocacy organization hiring a private investigator to drum up dirt on a Manitoba judge has put an otherwise little-known charity on headlines across the province – the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

With new coronavirus variants continuing to emerge, the development of a so-called universal vaccine offering broad, long-term protection needs to be the focus of an intense effort, one that may share characteristics of the widely hailed Operation Warp Speed, scientists suggest.

The Quebec Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a woman in the province after the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine she received in early April led to a rare blood clot in her brain.

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

Congressional Democrats – citing concerns over the possibility of political interference in the rush to develop a coronavirus vaccine – say they will look to scientists, not President Donald Trump, to ensure that if one becomes available it is both safe and effective.

The economy is plummeting, and millions of Americans need to get back to work. But experts say some arguments for reopening the economy now are short-sighted or flawed.

Months into a pandemic that has killed nearly 500,000 people worldwide, scientists are still trying to answer crucial questions about the coronavirus.

The revelations in journalist Bob Woodward’s new book about what U.S. President Donald Trump knew about the threat posed by COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic have prompted new questions about the Canadian government’s response to the virus, given how much intelligence is shared between the two countries.

Interim Com-COV2 trial data evaluated two-dose COVID-19 vaccination regimens with first dose of BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) or ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford-AstraZeneca) alongside second dose as either homologous vaccination, heterologous NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax) vaccination, or heterologous mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccination.1 These data showed that ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination followed by NVX-CoV2373 vaccination drove optimal T-cell immunogenicity and excellent antibody induction. These heterologous vaccine approach findings are now likely to be extrapolated in developing scheduling strategies for other vaccines.

There’s still a long way to go, but RNA vaccines might help in the fight against malaria.

An extra 19 488 Canadians died during the COVID-19 pandemic than would have been expected normally, according to Statistics Canada. However, additional deaths from COVID-19, delayed medical care and a rise in substance use were likely offset by fewer deaths from influenza and other causes thanks to

Claims about the drug are based on shoddy science—but that science is entirely unremarkable in its shoddiness.

Calgary physician organizer Dr. Amy Tan explains how to clean your mask, which kind to choose and why wearing one is absolutely vital.

People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.

The Informed Consent Action Network, one of the most notorious anti-vax groups in the world, has been seeking to broker ties with Trump supporters.

Extremists are being pitted against moderate centre-right voters in the next chapter of the culture wars, says academic and author Paolo Gerbaudo

New messenger RNA vaccines to fight the coronavirus are based on a technology that could transform medicine. Next up: sickle cell and HIV.

Most people believe human rights are broadly based and it's illegal to discriminate between categories of employees. Not true

Six good reasons to rethink vaccine certificates

Sure, it may be true. But that doesn’t mean it’s productive.

Approving COVID-19 booster shots seemed like a slam dunk, but two influential advisory boards raised a host of complicated questions.

Governments are launching booster programmes over fears about waning immunity levels, but vaccines are still highly effective at what matters most – preventing severe disease.

They need consequences, not sympathy.

"The vaccines were transformational," said one doctor. "It was sort of a very visible miracle."

Once, people were asking to be exempted from measures that kept the public safe. Now the reverse is happening.

"It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies, and hundreds of thousands of people are dying from Covid-19 as a result."

Scientists analyzed data from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms through the Delta variant's surge.

In the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, only a small number of the more than 6,000 hospitals in the U.S. let journalists inside.