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For Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, public health is like the air bag in your car. You don’t see it, but when you need it, it has to be there. “And when it fails, you really notice it,” she says. As deputy […]
By now, you’ve probably heard that Nova Scotia doctors have ratified two new four-year contracts with the provincial government. The new contracts, which are retroactive to April 2019, offer all doctors 2% raises in each of the four years, as […]
Whether you’re scanning social media, making calls, checking email (or the latest cat video to go viral), it can be downright difficult to put down your smartphone. Nearly three out of four Canadians spend at least three to four hours […]
Thanks to decades of immunization programs, the rates of infectious diseases like measles and mumps have been drastically reduced in Canada. These diseases have not been eradicated, however. Vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance of parents to get their children vaccinated […]
From plastic throw-away decorations to mass-produced costumes to discarded candy wrappers – Halloween has a scary reputation of being a wasteful and expensive holiday. The Retail Association of Canada predicts that Canadians will spend close to $1 billion on Halloween this year – […]
Halifax family physician Dr. Sundeep Chohan is proof that there’s no one type of physician interested in practising medicine in Nova Scotia. Born and raised in London, England, he graduated from medical school at University College London in 1999. While […]
It doesn’t matter if you’re young and healthy: having the flu, or influenza, can land you sick in bed for days. “It’s a formidable illness, but too often people don’t see it that way,” says Dr. Joanne Langley, a pediatric […]
Walking into Dr. Kenny Yee’s office in Barrington Passage, N.S., you know immediately that there’s something different about his practice. On the wall in the waiting room are 25 portraits of medical learners – a mix of residents, medical students […]
The start of a new school year often means the start of new routines. Learning the names of teachers, organizing lunch supplies, scheduling extracurricular activities – parents of school-aged children have a lot on their minds. With all of these […]
“No one ever thinks when they first use an opioid that they’ll become dependent on it,” says Dr. Andy Blackadar, a family physician in Liverpool, N.S. “But it’s easy for people to see it as a personal failure. It’s not […]
