Category Archives: Health Reporting
Cash-for-syringe plan, not the best
This is something I meant to write about ages ago – but have only now had the chance. The mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the small town in Northern Saskatchewan where I got my start as a daily newspaper reporter, … Continue reading
Posted in Health Reporting, HIV/AIDS
Tagged harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, needle exchange, syringe
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Contact tracing and TB in northern mines
One case of TB at a mine in Northern Saskatchewan has led to contact tracing going on across the country (and a couple of international cases). I find this incredibly interesting on two points. Who is affected – and if … Continue reading
Posted in Health Reporting
Tagged air travel, infectious disease, mines, Northern Saskatchewan, TB
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MSF leaves Somalia – but not without a fight
Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders as they are called by many, go into places where no one else will go, they were born out of an exhaustion of complacency and work to bring health care to people who … Continue reading
Two MSF (Doctors without Borders) aid workers were freed after being kidnapped from a Kenya refugee camp nearly two years ago. There isn’t much word on their condition, but they are alive and that is incredible. The pair was working … Continue reading
Anti-vaccine advocates and junk science
So the vehemently anti-vaccine advocate is going to be on the View, where the audience will be the very people the public health officials are desperately trying to get to come in and get their children vaccinated. Do I think … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, immunization, Jenny McCarthy, junk science, vaccine
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Angela Hill 