Healthcare Professionals – Vaccine News
- Yet another study finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism
- Toronto researchers discover how immune cells use neurochemicals to fight infection
- Flu vaccines in short supply in Nova Scotia
- Seniors can now choose from different types of flu shot. Here's what's available in N.L.
- Hepatitis A, B and other travel vaccines facing shortages across Canada
- Understanding this flu season's high numbers
- Anti-vaccination views among top threats to global health: WHO – CTV News
- Quebec’s change to HPV vaccine program divides experts
- Challenge of vaccine delivery in remote areas topic at Canadian conference
- Bringing immunization records into the digital age
- Is it time to bring back the Lyme disease vaccine?
- Think you’re too old for the HPV vaccine? Think again, say experts
- Adult Vaccines Market Forecasted to Grow at Steady Pace During 2020
Upcoming Events
March 2019
Canada
Pharmacists are medication experts and so much more. Each March Pharmacist Awareness Month (PAM) helps to celebrate and educate Canadians about the contributions that pharmacists make in the delivery of health care.
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March 24, 2019
Worldwide
World TB Day which is celebrated on March 24 each year, is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide and the status of TB prevention and care efforts. The World TB Day 2019 theme is “It’s Time!”
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April 3 - 6, 2019
The Westin, Ottawa, ON
AMMI Canada (Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada) and CACMID (Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) are pleased to invite you to THE Canadian annual meeting in infectious diseases and microbiology. The 2019 meeting will address topics including: Tropical Medicine, Clinical Controversies in Infectious Disease and Diagnostic Microbiology, Advances in the Development of Universal Influenza Virus Vaccines, What’s Hot in Adult and Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Microbiology?
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April 30 – May 2, 2019
Shaw Centre, Ottawa, ON
Public Health 2019 is the national forum where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.
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June 6 - 8, 2019
Sheraton Centre, Toronto, ON
The Canadian Paediatric Society’s (CPS) 96th Annual Conference is the largest gathering of paediatric and child health care providers in Canada. This event will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on June 6-8, 2019 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Designed for a broad range of professionals and trainees including subspecialists, family physicians, nurse practitioners and other child and youth health care providers, the CPS conference has something for everyone.
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