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Health authorities recommend receiving an annual influenza shot to prevent transmission and severe illness, but vaccine skeptics are falsely promoting elderberry as an alternative. Their posts overstate the plant's merits as a flu remedy and include misleading information about the efficacy and safety of inoculation.

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health (HPEPH) is reminding individuals who use drugs to take all available prec...

Epidemiologist Yvonne DeWit and Public Health Nurse Jeremy Owens announced at the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health board meeting a new Opioid Monitoring…

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health has released the following statement, following the Board of Health meeti...

The appointment is effective April 3. Hes the full-time successor to Dr. Robert Cushman, who retired at the end of December.

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) released Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health , on Jan. 17, replacing the 2011 Low-Risk Alcohol…

OTTAWA — Drug overdose calls have become a daily occurrence in the nation’s capital and paramedics say they’re concerned about the toxicity of the drug supply,…

Drug overdose calls have become a daily occurrence in the nations capital and paramedics say theyre concerned about the toxicity of the drug supply, which is making the most widely available tools less effective.

During the feverish months that led to Ottawa’s total ban on indoor smoking in April 2001, the face of the city’s crusading medical officer of health was often…

Dr. Robert Cushman served as acting medical officer of health in Renfrew County for six years.