Context In February 2009, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) agreed on the need to develop a global legally binding instrument, or treaty, on mercury. It tasked governments to negotiate through an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Mercury, which met five times beginning in June 2010 and concluding in January 2013. The […]
On September 12, 2014, FDI World Dental Federation launched its Data Hub for Global Oral Health, a first of its kind online data-base for oral health and related information. The FDI Data Hub has been developed under the umbrella of Vision 2020: FDI’s guidelines to shaping the future of oral health. It builds on the […]
By Alexandra Rabalski For over 9 years Henry Schein has been running the Back to School Program across Canada for children that come from underprivileged families. At this fun event, children receive backpacks filled with school supplies and healthy snacks. This year the program broke their record with the highest number of backpacks distributed in […]
The International Association of Dental Traumatology invites you to help with their project, which aims to develop a core outcome set for traumatic dental injuries in children and adults. The association is seeking your input on what these core outcomes should be. Click here to complete a survey that should not take more than 10 minutes to […]
This summaary is based on the article published in Canadian Family Physician: Trends in high-dose opioid prescribing in Canada (September 2014) Tara Gomes, Muhammad M. Mamdani, J. Michael Paterson, Irfan A. Dhalla, David N. Juurlink Context Canada and the United States have the highest levels of prescription opioid consumption in the world, and the use of these […]
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Dr. John O’Keefe, Director of Knowledge Networks at the Canadian Dental Association spoke with Ms. Christine LeGrand, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, about a new position statement brought out by the Foundation titled: Sugar, Heart Disease and Stroke. Listen to the Audio Interview http://www.oasisdiscussions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Le-Grand_Christine_OriginalRecording.mp3 Heart and […]
Educated in Karachi, Pakistan, and London, England, Dr. Zeeshan Sheikh worked for two years as a clinician before deciding to pursue his interests in dental research (on the fabrication and characterization of bone grafts) in Canada. He recently completed his PhD at McGill University’s faculty of dentistry in August and is poised to begin a […]