The current paradigm to strive to diagnose and treat diseases early and effectively remains unquestionable. However, COVID-19 has challenged this central dogma and left us with an unparalleled growing global healthcare crisis. Reports are clear that the pandemic is creating numerous ripple effects for patients who are facing delays to both the diagnosis and treatment […]
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Bridging gaps and building bridges to navigate healthcare avoidance
Employee wellness tips for healthcare workers
The spread of COVID-19 has affected every industry, every facet of life. But its impact on healthcare providers is significantly higher than most and continues to create a ripple effect of significant burdens. Not only are healthcare workers experiencing grave challenges at work, but their concerns and worries extend home to their family members. Heathcare […]
Increasing access to mental health support
Our mental health has taken a beating this year. One of many ripple effects from COVID-19 is the toll that living through a pandemic has taken on people’s emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. Whether it’s stress from the blurring boundaries between work and home life, a sense of longing from not being able to see […]
Constructing a healthy digital world
Remember when global singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran announced he was quitting social media? He bade farewell to his 16 million Twitter followers, dumped his phone and spent months jetting around the world. That decision, five years ago, was perceived as unusual and even foolish. Quickly though, as if permission had been granted, going tech-free became on-trend. […]
COVID-19: What the looming mental health crisis means for health inequalities
The pandemic in which we are currently living has seen many of us just about surviving, and certainly not thriving. The impact of COVID-19 has been far reaching and touched upon every aspect of our lives; the way we work, the way we socialize, the way we interact with our families. Unsurprisingly, there is a […]
COVID-19: A watershed moment for health communicators?
A broad number of trends and issues have been accelerated or exposed by COVID-19. One of them is the matter of health literacy. Even in developed countries with high levels of general education, such as the US or the UK, there is marked variability in the understanding of information about health. At the same time, […]
Ensuring an open channel with regulatory and medical policy opinion leaders during COVID-19
Many companies, particularly new entrants into the U.S. pharma arena, are facing some level of disruption or impact on their projected timelines for seeking FDA licensure, gathering data from trials for filing, conducting health economics analyses needed to demonstrate improved outcomes, or conducting real-world evidence studies that can help inform medical societies’ deliberations on clinical […]
When can Canadians expect a vaccine for COVID-19?
When can Canadians expect a vaccine for COVID-19? Watch to learn more about why Dr. Kelvin is “cautiously optimistic” about where we stand.
2020 and the luxury of limitations for clinical trials
COVID-19 has had a fundamental effect on every aspect of society, including clinical trials. The search for an effective vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 continues to move at record pace. However, many clinical trials in other therapeutic areas have either been delayed or essentially ground to a halt due to the pandemic. Such delays place […]
Effective congress planning for publications teams
The availability of data, experts for authoring abstracts, posters and oral presentations, and congress activities themselves have all been affected by the pandemic.