Canadian Cancer Society report predicts the disease will cost provincial and territorial health ministries $37.4-billion a year in 2034, up from $30.2-billion this year
New report finds that Trikafta patients’ admissions to hospital fell by an average of 65 per cent over one year – but at a list price of over $300,000, the drug is not yet considered cost effective
The outbreak is the largest the province has seen in more than 30 years, with more than 80 per cent of the cases diagnosed in people under the age of 19
After hundreds of U.S. dairy cattle herds were infected this year, B.C. announced on Nov. 9 the first human case of the potentially deadly viral illness to be acquired in Canada
Risk to people who don’t work on farms or interact regularly with wild birds is low say officials, but when humans have caught bird flu in the past, it has been deadly