public health

Why aren’t all genders equally protected by the HPV vaccine?

HPV-related throat and mouth cancers have increased by 56 per cent in men and 17 per cent in women since the 1990s. The failure to include boys earlier in widespread…

What adults born after 1970 need to know about measles

Booster shots may be required With the outbreak of several cases of measles in B.C. since the beginning of 2019, here’s what you need to know about the spread and…

Stopping media stereotypes in Aboriginal health and education

According to Duncan McCue, an Anishinaabe journalist who has been a CBC reporter for over 15 years, “an elder once told me the only way an Indian would make it…