TORONTO — Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, issued the following statement regarding the first year of the new physician’s services agreement (PSA): “We have received Arbitrator Kaplan’s decision regarding the first year of a new four-year physician services agreement with the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). This agreement builds on the $17.5 billion the province currently spends to …
Ontario – Dr Kieran Moore, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, received his Flu Shot recently. He said: “Protect yourself and your family from the flu. Get your free flu shot at doctor and nurse practitioner offices, some Public Health units and participating pharmacies.“ Starting in early October, free flu shots will be available for for those most vulnerable and …
Ottawa – Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, and Canada’s Minister of Health, Mark Holland, held a virtual meeting to launch the EU-Canada Health Policy Dialogue under the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement. The Health Policy Dialogue, focused on cooperation across three priority areas: antimicrobial resistance, health security (including climate-related health risks), and non-communicable diseases (including cancer and mental health). A …
TORONTO — Dr Kieran Moore, Chief Medical Officer of Health, issued the following statement: “Brant County Health Unit has received laboratory confirmation of a human case of rabies in a resident of Brantford-Brant. The illness is suspected to have been acquired from direct contact with a bat in Ontario. To ensure privacy for the family, no further information about the individual …
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NEW YORK — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, “Pfizer”) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech”) announced top-line results from their Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the companies’ combined mRNA vaccine candidate against influenza and COVID-19 in healthy individuals 18-64 years of age. The Phase 3 randomized, observer-blinded study (NCT06178991) enrolled more than 8,000 adults 18 through 64 years of age to evaluate the …
MAINZ – BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech” or “the Company”) will present clinical trial data for selected assets from its multi-platform oncology pipeline at the European Society for Molecular Oncology (“ESMO”) Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain from September 13-17, 2024. The oral and poster presentations will feature programs across BioNTech’s clinical pipeline, including mRNA-based cancer vaccines, next-generation immunomodulators and targeted therapy approaches. …
Ottawa – Health Canada has asked provinces to destroy remaining last year’s Covid-19 vaccines supplies. The agency is working to get updated shots, some time in in October, per Ontario’s health ministry. A ministry statement read: “Vaccines will be available once Ontario receives supply from Health Canada following their regulatory authorization of the new, updated vaccine formulation.” The federal government’s immunization guide …
KIRKLAND – Pfizer Canada ULC announced that Health Canada has approved PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin) an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in combination with pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer (la/mUC) with no prior systemic therapy for mUC. The approval was made under the Health Canada Priority Review process, after having met the …
London – An Oxford University spinout company Caristo Diagnostics has developed an Artificial Intelligence model that can identify individuals at risk of a heart attack within the next decade, per BBC. Scientists have dubbed this model revolutionary, as it identifies cardiac inflammation that cannot be distinguished on a computed tomography or CT scan, a combination of X-ray and computer technology. …
