Victoria Esses and her collaborators examine Canada’s immigration system prior to the pandemic, and suggest changes for success moving forward.
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Expert insights: COVID-19 and mental health – feeling anguish is normal and is not a disorder
Mental health and wellness professor and registered psychotherapist Marnie Wedlake says we should be wary of quick fixes that promise to remedy our human suffering.
Human rights law provides transparent, fair framework for vaccine allocations
Study recommends governments adopt an intersectional approach to understanding how vulnerabilities and disadvantages affect a person’s health.
Dialysis patients four times more likely to die from COVID-19 infection
Patients with chronic kidney disease are particularly vulnerable to contracting and dying from COVID-19, a Western-led study found.
Inconsistent instructions may cause too-shallow nasal swabs: study
There’s a wide variance of provincial recommendations on how deeply the swab should be inserted.
Peers-for-Peers program offers support for physicians
As the pandemic wears on, a unique program at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry builds resiliency with mutual support.
More evidence needed to inform policy on sending kids back to school
The uncertainty about when it’s best to resume schoolkids’ in-person learning could be clarified by conducting randomized trials.
Biomarkers could be used in a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 blood screening tool
A new tool could quickly screen patients for the disease and predict which of them will become most critically ill.