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Opinion: Bill 10 won't fix problems caused by poor management of hospital bed...
You wake up one morning with excruciating foot pain and realize you can’t walk. You call in sick and then take a taxi to the nearest hospital, hobble to the emergency room window, and tell the...
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Overcrowded ERs plead with parents to keep flu-stricken kids at home
As the flu and gastro season begins, ER doctors at Montreal’s pediatric hospitals are reminding parents that emergency rooms are not drop-in clinics. “Our priority is to treat the sickest patients. And...
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Hockey dynamics — cramped benches, young players, shared water — ideal for mumps
TORONTO Officials of the National Hockey League and the general public may find it unexpected to see chipmunk-cheeked hockey stars who have contracted mumps. But to public health experts, an outbreak...
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Vaccinating against mumps hasn't been a bulletproof solution for NHL teams
We don’t know exactly how the Canadiens have contained the mumps outbreak that’s crawling its way across the National Hockey League. Have they taken a flame-thrower to potentially contaminated...
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Montreal police locate man with tuberculosis
Montreal police located a missing man being treated for tuberculosis A Montreal man suffering from active tuberculosis — and at risk of spreading the disease to others — was found by Montreal police...
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Jewish General limits number of visitors per patient due to seasonal flu
The Jewish General Hospital is limiting patient visits to two visitors at a time, per patient, in an effort to curb the spread of the flu virus. “All visitors must be exempt from flu-like symptoms...
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Q&A: How Ebola epidemic was traced to bat-filled hollow tree in Guinea
The severe Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa started with a two-year-old boy from a small village in Guinea, who was likely infected by playing in the hollow of a tree housing a colony of bats....
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Flu clinics set up as emergency rooms overflow
Montreal’s public health agency says it will be converting several local clinics into “flu clinics” for a week starting on Saturday. The move comes in response to the early onset of the flu virus in...
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Public health officials brace for new flu strain
The particularly deadly strain of flu virus that hit early and hard in Quebec this flu season has probably peaked, but it’s not too late to get vaccinated against another strain that is just ramping...
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Possible case of Ebola in Lanaudière
Quebec’s ministry of Health and Social Services has announced that a patient in the Lanaudière region has undergone tests for the Ebola virus. The patient, who has not been identified, recently...
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Editorial: Vaccinating children should be a no-brainer
That vast majority, if not all, public schools and daycares in Quebec, Canada and across North America are peanut-free zones because of the potentially lethal impact of an anaphylactic reaction in a...
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Possible measles outbreak in Lanaudière
Health officials in the Lanaudière region say they are awaiting test results for eight possible cases of measles. The cases all appear to be related, according to a release from the region’s public...
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Opinion: My sister the anti-vaxxer
My sister gave birth to her first baby in her neighbour’s bathtub, in a little house off the edge of a dirt road near Wakefield. There was a story about it in the local paper, the Low Down. The...
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Letter: Anti-vaxxers do deserve scorn and anger
Re: “My sister, the anti-vaxxer” (Opinion, Feb. 6) Are we supposed to empathize with Julie Anne Pattee’s sister, who chooses not to vaccinate her child because she needs her “faith in the system”...
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Premier chastises parents who don't vaccinate kids against measles
The government can’t legislate compulsory measles vaccination, but Premier Philippe Couillard is urging parents to immunize their children out of a sense of responsibility. “I recognize that courts...
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Celine Cooper: Measles are far from 'marvellous'
So there’s this kids book, right? It’s called Melanie’s Marvelous Measles, and it’s written by author Stephanie Messenger from Brisbane, Australia. The cover of the book shows a young, white girl...
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Letters: We can't let anti-vaxxers off the hook
Re: “Premier chastises parents who don’t vaccinate” (Montreal Gazette, Feb. 14) Kudos to Premier Philippe Couillard for taking a strong stance against parents who are choosing not to vaccinate their...
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Opinion: Canada should renew its commitment to fighting tuberculosis around...
The world was unprepared for the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa even though red flags were raised months in advance. Thousands of families, communities and individuals were needlessly ravaged by this...
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Measles outbreak in Lanaudière is spreading, 80 now infected
A sharp increase in the number of measles cases in the Lanaudière region seemed to have health officials on the defensive Tuesday, as they refused to answer questions about the escalating outbreak...
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Lanaudière health officials confirm 119 cases of measles
The measles outbreak in the Lanaudière region has 119 confirmed cases, all of them within families that were not vaccinated, health officials confirmed Wednesday. This is up from the 18 cases first...
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