Health officials have detected COVID-19 at a second mink farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley.
In a media Christmas Eve media release, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries said three mink had died at a second farm in the province.
Subsequent testing revealed the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes...
Health Canada says the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe for use in Canada, with officials saying Wednesday that “solid scientific proof show that the benefits outweigh the potential risks.”
The vaccine is the second to be greenlit in Canada, following the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on Dec. 9.
Moderna...
Ontario health officials are expected to release updating modelling on the province’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic late Monday morning.
The data will be provided by Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe and Co-Chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table Dr. Adalsteinn Brown.
The modelling is...
The first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in New Brunswick was administered to a long-term care home resident at the Miramichi Regional Hospital Saturday morning.
Pauline Gauvin, an 84-year-old Miramichi resident, received one of 1,950 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses expected to be distributed to people in the province.
Gauvin said getting the...
Ottawa Public Health says there are currently no patients in Ottawa ICUs with COVID-19 complications.
The latest update from OPH on Saturday shows 20 hospitalized patients in the city, but zero in any intensive care unit.
OPH reported 46 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, but the...
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the presence of amyloid plaques in the patient's brain. These plaques sequester copper, and contain approximately five times as much as a healthy brain.
Two CNRS scientists from the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory recently developed, with their colleagues from the Guangdong University of Technology and Shenzhen...
Noomi Rapace will lead cast in a gender-swapped adaptation of Hamlet from filmmaker Ali Abbasi.
The film will reunite Abbasi with The Wife and Melancholia outfit Meta Film after they produced the director’s Oscar-nominated Cannes 2018 hit Border.
Iceland’s Sjón (The Northman) is writing the project, with Stine Meldgaard Madsen (Borgen)...
One in four Canadians are still feeling moderate to extreme levels of anxiety and are binge drinking — trends that continue to alarm mental health experts as the country heads into a lonelier than usual holiday season.
The results, released Tuesday, come out of the Centre for Addiction and Mental...
A health worker in Alaska suffered a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine and is now hospitalized but stable, a report said Wednesday.
The New York Times reported the person received their shot on Tuesday, and Pfizer confirmed it was working with local authorities to investigate the incident.
Two...
At 8:05 a.m. on a cold, cloudless day, personal support worker Jo-Anne Miner became the first person of 1.4 million in the Ottawa-Gatineau area to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, hours before the federal government announced that hundreds of thousands more doses would reach Canadian soil by the end of...
