Seventy-three percent of study respondents were unaware that they were at risk of contracting rabies after a dog bite. Image: Laurence Daigle Polar foxes transmit rabies to dogs that breed in cities where indigenous communities were settled in the 1950s. The public is...
(Photo: Ian Schofield) For the 13,000 residents of Nunavik facing a healthcare shortage this summer, help has come — though not in the form of the military medics healthcare officials they asked for earlier this month. Instead, Québec’s health authorities have...
(Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) Nunavummiut can expect to feel the effects of a worldwide shortage of healthcare professionals this summer, when as many as 12 of Nunavut’s 25 communities will see a reduction in services that, in some cases, may amount to a complete...
The pilotless plane that makes doctorless house calls (Photo: SDU) In Greenland, technology has long been employed as a way to shorten the distance between patients and healthcare professionals. Previously, the focus has been on telemedicine; since 2010, all of the...
