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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone know the actual market status of #artesunate in Canada? Since submitted as a Priority Review, presumably Health Canada's "expectation that sponsors requesting Priority Review status market the product in a timely fashion, i.e. within 60 days" after approval in July applies?
Also: Price?

Screenshot of the approval status of Amivas-Artesunate from the Health Canada Drug Products Database.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

Canadian friends! If you're having turkey this weekend, let me set you up for the days that follow 👇

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 12d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

ivacheung.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 2d

Today @msf.ca bids adieu to its long-serving Humanitarian Representative to Canada, @jwnickerson.bsky.social.😿

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 2d

"Canada eliminated #measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27 – barring a ‘miracle’ experts doubt will happen." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?

Experts blame waning vaccination rates and disinformation for outbreaks that have continued for nearly a full year

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 15d

Impressive panel assembled by @msfaccess.org for this upcoming virtual event on "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential TB medicines in the EU and EEA" ⚖️💊
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...

Screenshot of the poster for the linked event

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 2d

Today @msf.ca bids adieu to its long-serving Humanitarian Representative to Canada, @jwnickerson.bsky.social.😿

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 3d

"Senegal has recorded 17 deaths from #RiftValleyFever (RVF), a health ministry official said on Thursday, apparently the deadliest outbreak in decades." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

www.reuters.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to hear about the passing of Catarina de Albuquerque, who, as, the UN's first special rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, helped draw attention to the UN's failures (both of sanitation and accountability) in causing the Haitian cholera epidemic.

Screenshot of paragraphs 32-34 from this report https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g14/069/10/pdf/g1406910.pdf

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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 3d

‘What is already an innovation gap could become an innovation chasm.’

Large pharma companies withdrawing from R&D for infectious disease therapeutics has a growing impact on non-profit medical research orgs like DNDi, writes our R&D director in @statnews.com.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/p...

Pharma’s shift away from infectious disease research could spell disaster for the world’s poorest people

The number of “innovation champions” in the pharma industry working on infectious diseases is dropping — and that’s troubling, writes R&D director for Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

www.statnews.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 3d

WHO's fourth external situation report on the #Ebola outbreak in DRC. No new confirmed or probable cases since the previous report, which is good news...
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Screenshot of the title, date and situation update graph from the top of the linked report.

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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 6d

#Fiji’s significant rise in new #HIV acquisitions highlights the urgent need to expand harm reduction, prevention, testing and treatment services – and to address stigma that hinders access to care.

Read more via BBC News ⤵️

Fiji's HIV cases surge due to bluetoothing, chemsex and needle-sharing

The small South Pacific nation is facing one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics.

www.bbc.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 5d

That's The Jesus Rolls to you, Dan (which I haven't seen, but I did see the dubious French film it's a remake of...).

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 9d

The British Columbia government has confirmed the presence of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in white-tailed deer in the Grand Forks area.

Disease outbreak has killed nearly 100 deer around Grand Forks, B.C., province says

The British Columbia government has confirmed the presence of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in white-tailed deer in the Grand Forks area.

cheknews.ca

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 11d

👀66 cases of raccoon 🦝 #rabies in QC thus far in 2025. "L’épidémie de rage du raton laveur prend de l’ampleur"
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2...

Estrie et Montérégie | L’épidémie de rage du raton laveur prend de l’ampleur

Les cas de rage du raton laveur ont doublé depuis le début de l’été en Estrie et en Montérégie, et l’épidémie a récemment gagné les environs du lac Memphrémagog, alerte Québec.

www.lapresse.ca

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 11d

WHO's third external situation report on the #Ebola outbreak in DRC.
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Screenshot of the title, date and situation update graph from the linked report.

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 12d

"Africa’s ‘meningitis belt’ has killed hundreds of thousands – a new vaccine may turn the tide
Desert winds, dust storms and fragile health systems mean the bacteria that cause the disease can infect people more easily" via @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 12d

Also some interesting stuff (e.g., on #tuberculosis vaccines, below) in WHO's "Highlights from the Meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization 22-25 September 2025" cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...

Screenshot of the section of the linked report on Session 4 New Tuberculosis Vaccines

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 12d

Some interesting info in the new WHO #Ebola report:
"Regional Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Version 01, September 2025" www.afro.who.int/publications...

Screenshot of Table 2 | Estimated resource requirement for international partners’ support to EVD disease outbreak from the linked report.

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 12d

"Nigeria Deal With China Will Enable it to Make #Insulin Alongside Egypt and South Africa"
healthpolicy-watch.news/nigeria-deal...
c/o @kerrycullinan.bsky.social at @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social

Nigeria Deal With China Will Enable It To Make Insulin Alongside Egypt And South Africa - Health Policy Watch

A deal with China will enable Nigeria to join Egypt and South Africa as a producer of insulin, the drug that is essential to control diabetes.

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 13d

Turkana County in Kenya declares public health emergency following a record surge of #VisceralLeishmaniasis. ⤵️ (1/2) thekenyatimes.com/health/turka...

Panic As County Declares Emergency Over Deadly Parasitic Disease

The disease peaked in June this year when 125 new cases were recorded in a single month. In total, Turkana has registered 2,457 cases since 2020.

thekenyatimes.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 14d

It's #WorldRabiesDay, so let's dig deep into the vaults for the proverbial Public Service Announcement With Guitars.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLh6...

AGONY BAG- Rabies is a Killer (Video)

YouTube video by Sup Dog Records

www.youtube.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 14d

Perhaps this panel will have some insights for #Canada, where access to #EssentialMedicines for #tuberculosis is a problem as well...
See e.g., www.cmaj.ca/content/195/...
and this 2025 report from @stoptbcanada.bsky.social www.stoptbcanada.com/news/access-...

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 14d

It's #WorldRabiesDay, so let's dig deep into the vaults for the proverbial Public Service Announcement With Guitars.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLh6...

AGONY BAG- Rabies is a Killer (Video)

YouTube video by Sup Dog Records

www.youtube.com

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 15d

Impressive panel assembled by @msfaccess.org for this upcoming virtual event on "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential TB medicines in the EU and EEA" ⚖️💊
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 16d

Comment from @msf.ca:
"Replenishing the #GlobalFund to Fight #AIDS, #Tuberculosis and #Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity" www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/replenishing...

Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

MSF warns global health funding cuts risk reversing progress against HIV, TB and malaria. Critical action is needed to sustain critical programs worldwide.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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