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Two weeks ago, Melanie Paradis got a call from her son’s Belleville, Ont., daycare that there was a case of hand-foot-and-mouth disease — an illness she had never heard of but one that would have her son in agony for days. Three days later, her one-year-old son Everett “was just crying inconsolably.” “It’s not life-threatening but …

The Prince Edward Island government is now offering new doctors bigger bonuses and a shorter service commitment when they sign up to work in the province, in an effort to recruit more than two dozen doctors.  Incentives are being offered for family physicians and some specialists who take jobs anywhere in P.E.I., whereas …

Trained as physicians in their country, a Ukrainian couple is now building a new life on P.E.I. as resident care workers at a long-term care home in Charlottetown.  Olena Yevchenko, 29 and Yehor Polusmiak, 28, were on vacation in Africa when war broke out in Ukraine.  Polusmiak’s parents moved to …

One of Canada’s most iconic brands of ice cream has found itself in the eye of a social media firestorm after an Ontario doctor’s tweet became the target of anti-vaxxers. Chapman’s Ice Cream is one of Canada’s best-known brands in dessert products, manufactured at its family-owned Markdale, Ont., plant, about …

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court issued notice to the state government over a petition filed by in-service doctors seeking implementation of reservation for them in postgraduate (PG) courses from the 2021-22 academic year. By a resolution passed on January 10, the state authorities decided to implement 10% reservation in PG …

New Delhi: In a letter addressed to Union as well as state governments, as many as 32 prominent doctors from India and abroad have warned about “inappropriate” diagnostic methods and medications being used to deal with the current wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. The doctors, in the letter, cautioned that …

New Delhi: In what might be termed as a ‘miraculous recovery’, a 55-year-old bedridden man started to walk and speak after being administered the first shot of Covishield vaccine in Jharkhand on Thursday, said doctors. According to the doctors as quoted by news agency PTI, Dularchand Munda, a resident of …

Bengaluru: HealthPlix Technologies, an AI-powered EMR software today, announced the release of the Prescription Summary Dashboard (PSD) for doctors. The AI feature helps doctors to use real-time analytics and analyse their historical prescriptions within a few clicks and enable them to identify different cohorts of patients and the treatment given …

JAIPUR: Residents doctors at government medical colleges across the state are having to operate at 66 per cent of their total strength amid the ongoing spurt in dengue and Covid-19 cases due to the delay in NEET-PG counselling. The resident doctors across state medical colleges on Saturday were seen working …

All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P) Year after year, the bulk of MBBS doctors with disabilities who clear the post graduate entrance exam for seven All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, including the one in Delhi, are denied admission. Barely 0.4% of seats over the last three years have …