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Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5B to provinces, smokers in ‘historic’ proposed deal
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of […]
Quebec floated plan to shift doctors to most vulnerable. Are they reconsidering?
Quebec’s health minister is attempting to reassure the public they won’t lose their family doctors, following a controversial proposal suggesting the redistribution of physicians from […]
Quebec organ donation service takes over organ transport
Article content Quebec’s organ donation service is taking over the role of transporting organs effective immediately, provincial health minister Sonia Bélanger announced Wednesday. The move […]
Montreal aims to stop fluoridating West Island water in 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Health News Local News The change would affect more than 143,000 people in Pointe-Claire, Beaconsfield, Kirkland, Baie-D’Urfé, Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Dorval. Published Oct […]
Quebec nurses to begin voting Tuesday on conciliator’s proposal for new collective agreement
The 80,000 members of the FIQ are being asked to vote from Tuesday 8 p.m. to Thursday 8 p.m. on the renewal of their collective […]
Patients are experiencing delays accessing breast ultrasounds in Quebec
Breadcrumb Trail Links Health Women News Local News Quebec “It’s something that we find very unpleasant,” says the president of the Association des radiologistes du […]
Breast cancer deaths down by 50%, but there’s a disturbing rise of diagnoses in young people
Breadcrumb Trail Links Health Local News Surgical oncologist Saima Hassan says Quebec’s need to lower its breast cancer screening age is “urgent.” Published Oct 10, […]
Opinion: What you should know about COVID this fall
Breadcrumb Trail Links Health Local News Opinion Everyone seems to know someone who is sick with the virus these days. My patients are asking questions. […]
Quebec launches annual flu/COVID vaccination campaign
Article content Quebec public health authorities on Monday launched the annual influenza and COVID-19 vaccination campaign, administering the shots first to people in long-term care […]