A new drug could stop Alzheimer's before memory loss begins https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251222080119.htm#:~:text=In a new study%2C Northwestern,What is this%3F 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Bluewater Health is the latest hospital to implement mandatory masking as flu cases surge https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mandatory-masking-bluewater-health-sarnia-9.7025144 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

American food safety likely headed for a breakdown amid funding cuts https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/american-food-safety-funding-cuts-foodnet/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Eight cases of measles now confirmed in Quebec https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/eight-cases-of-measles-now-confirmed-in-quebec/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Alberta's Health-Care Privatization Push Is Heading to Disaster https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/12/22/Alberta-Health-Care-Privatization-Disaster/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

CFIA recalls Pillsbury Pizza Pops snacks due to possible E. coli https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/some-pepperoni-and-bacon-pizza-pops-snacks-recalled-due-to-possible-e-coli/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Edmonton-born doctor on struggle with Canada's training system https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/edmonton-born-doctor-details-struggle-with-canadas-closed-off-training-system/ 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Some Torontonians are selling their blood to make ends meet www.sootoday.com/local-news/t... More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Ontario man gets $12K air ambulance bill from Alberta. Should you need insurance when travelling domestically? https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ontario-man-gets-12k-air-120000833.html More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Alberta quietly ends public reporting of COVID outbreaks in hospitals www.rmoutlook.com/beyond-local... @brettmckay.bsky.social More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Western N.L. nurses increasingly being forced to work overtime, says union https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nurse-mandatory-overtime-9.7023776 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Seniors Quitting Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves. In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects, by Paula Span www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/h... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Death of dog after avian influenza exposure marks second such case in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/hpai-avian-influenza-dog-alberta-9.7023269 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/19/childhood-vaccine-schedule-denmark-revisions/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Toronto hospital starts $1M fund to help patients with rent https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/this-is-preventative-medicine-toronto-hospital-starts-1-million-fund-to-help-patients-with-rent/article_af7209dc-dcb1-4cab-91da-e22954869844.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Yesterday I posted the 1st of my 2 recent papers with @tarakiran.bsky.social on the #GenderPayGap in medicine. Today I'm thrilled to share the 2nd, done with Dr. Fahima Dossa. We wanted to see if #WomenInSurgery did different types of work than their male colleagues. 1/8 #Medsky #Surgsky🧵

AI used to identify first imaging biomarker of chronic stress https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/researchers-identify-first-biomarker-of-chronic-stress-detectable-through-routine-chest-ct/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

How does Alberta's COVID vaccination rate of 6.8% compare to other provinces? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @jenleecbc.bsky.social @cbcnews.ca More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Health Canada opens consultations on 'Red Tape Reduction Initiatives to improve access to drugs' https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2025/12/health-canada-opens-formal-consultations-on-red-tape-reduction-initiatives-to-improve-access-to-drugs.html More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Quebec launches 26 projects to reduce its number of health executives https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/sante-quebec-launches-26-projects-to-reduce-its-number-of-executives/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Filipino nurse returns to work in Canada after losing immigration status despite past training and experience in Ontario toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/19/f... More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Filipino nurse returns to work in Canada after losing immigration status despite past training and experience in Ontario https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/19/filipino-nurse-returns-to-work-in-the-canadas-strained-health-industry-after-losing-immigration-status/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Moderna secures up to $54.3 million funding for bird flu vaccine from global coalition https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-secures-up-543-million-funding-bird-flu-vaccine-global-coalition-2025-12-18/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

USDA reports new bird flu spillover event in Wisconsin https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-confirms-bird-flu-case-wisconsin-dairy-herd-new-wildlife-spillover-2025-12-20/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

New Brunswick to publish report on mysterious neurological illness next month https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick-to-publish-report-on-mysterious-neurological-illness-next-month/article_95f6390f-ea64-59df-bd68-1ef14966fb8a.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Calgary woman says she can't afford doctor's fee to apply for disability tax credit https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary-woman-says-she-cant-afford-doctors-fee-to-apply-for-disability-tax-credit 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Security guards who left Saskatchewan man in cold barred from working at hospital https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/security-guards-who-left-saskatchewan-man-in-cold-barred-from-working-at-hospital/article_006af408-6633-5529-9da0-71515b88e3aa.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

When it comes to vaccines, Canada is normal no longer www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/19/o... @supriya.bsky.social @nationalobserver.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Flu cases continue to increase in Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canada-saw-highest-percentage-of-positive-flu-cases-in-last-three-seasons-health-agency-report/ 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Sonia Bélanger tapped to replace Christian Dubé as Quebec health minister https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-health-minister-sonia-belanger-9.7022340 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

'If the numbers are right, we're in trouble': Behind the comeback of measles in Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-measles-comeback-vaccination-rates-data/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Nova Scotia Health brings back mask mandate https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-health-reintroduces-masking-as-flu-season-blows-in-early 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Millions of Americans will soon be uninsured https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5649459/aca-enhanced-subsidies-obamacare-uninsured-drop-coverage-medicaid-gap 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called 'highly unethical' https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/19/hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-guinea-bissau-rfk 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

In closing these spaces, Toronto will only see more eulogies to come https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/in-closing-these-spaces-toronto-will-only-see-more-eulogies-to-come/article_296c2ecf-812d-4cbf-8d8b-84e7e52ceed8.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Quebec's Health Minister to step down. Will leave the CAQ and sit as independent https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/dube-stepping-down-as-quebec-health-minister-to-sit-as-independent-mna/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

'The system failed us today': Judge lifts injunction on Alberta gender-affirming care ban https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/judge-lifts-injuction-alberta-gender-affirming-care-ban 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Court grants judicial review for Kingston, Ont. doctor fighting $600K repayment order for COVID vaccines https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/court-grants-judicial-review-for-kingston-ont-doctor-fighting-600k-repayment-order-for-covid-vaccines/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Researchers discover why cholesterol-lowering statins harm muscles https://vancouversun.com/news/ubc-researchers-discover-why-cholesterol-lowering-statins-harm-muscles-heres-why-that-matters More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Montreal hospitals flagged as sites for possible measles exposure as cases climb https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/measles-quebec-9.7020963 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Whitehorse mother says it's time she's compensated as a caregiver www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... @aptnnews.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Ontario relies on pharmacists to prescribe drugs — but can we trust the diagnosis? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

What Should You Do About H3N2 Flu? There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...

Ontario's family-medicine czar has been on the job for a year. What's changed, and what's next? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-jane-philpott-family-doctor-medicine/ 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Delays in gynecological surgeries putting women's health and lives at risk, doctors warn https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/gynecological-surgeries-delay-9.7019414 More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Judge allows public fatality inquiry into Calgary woman’s death despite finding COVID-19 vaccine not the direct cause https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/fatality-inquiry-death-calgary-woman-covid-vaccine-proceed More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Unreliable data mask just how bad the air quality crisis is in India https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/unreliable-data-mask-just-how-bad-the-air-quality-crisis-is-in-india/article_63f15638-32ec-586a-b97d-16cc66e04018.html 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Ex-Harvard morgue manager who sold body parts sentenced to 8 years in prison https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/ex-harvard-morgue-manager-stole-body-parts-8-year-prison-term 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/trump-nih-cuts-nhgri-special-report-american-science-shattered/ 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/american-academy-pediatrics-funding-rfk 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁