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Episode 16 – Kids and COVID-19

Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week on the Rounds Table Mike interviews Dr. Peter Jüni, who is the executive lead of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. They discuss the most recent report from the Advisory Table on the role that children play in SARS-CoV2 transmission.     Questions? Comments? Feedback? We’d love to hear

Outdated consent rules a barrier to improving children’s health care

Peter J Gill & Jonathon Maguire

The evidence to support much of children’s healthcare is limited.Ten years ago, randomized controlled trials in adults were increasing ten times faster than pediatric ones. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like the trend has changed and the gap in evidence between adult and children’s healthcare continues to widen. Randomized controlled trials are the best ‘fair tests’ we

Promoting vaccine benefits: public health officials call for a rethink of communication with parents

Promoting vaccine benefits: public health officials call for a rethink of communication with parents

Public health officials must find better ways to communicate with parents about the risks and benefits of childhood vaccination, researchers and public health officials agree. That task is particularly challenging in the absence of a national, or a provincial, vaccine surveillance registry because, to target messages effectively, accurate and timely information about vaccination rates and

Confidence in primary care restored

Zayna Khayat Healthydebate blogger prevention

I became sold on the value of primary care in a way that I wouldn’t have had I not gone through this experience with my sick child… My mindset for years: My pediatrician minimizes my concerns The few times that I had raised concerns with my childrens’ pediatrician, I had been advised that it is