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Booking is now open for Nova Scotians to receive free COVID-19 and influenza vaccines. These safe and effective vaccines are recommended for everyone aged six months and older and help to support healthier communities throughout the respiratory season.

ADVERTISEMENTEdmonton WatchAlberta says it is spending more on mental health supports for kids as a result of global events. October 08, 2026 at 9:50a.m. EDT

For 40 years, WHSC has worked to equip Ontario workers and workplace representatives with the knowledge, skills and training they need to help build safer, healthier work. Our newly released 2025/26 Annual Report, Working for Workers, Training for Life, looks back at where that work began, what we accomplished over the past year and why effective, worker-focused health and safety training remains as important as ever.

Joe Allen, professor of exposure assessment science, and Sasha Hamdani, psychiatrist and creator @thepsychdoctormd giving a virtual briefing about air quality and mental health. Thanks to a WIN Challenge grant, the Center for Health Communication will help online influencers share evidence-based information about menopause that can prompt employers to provide more support for women workers.

Verona-based Epic Systems recently revealed it used an artificial intelligence tool to patch security risks that could give hackers undetectable access to patient health data — the latest in the back-and-forth between health companies and hackers in the AI era. Epic Chief Executive Judy Faulkner revealed the security vulnerabilities and the tool’s use at a conference last month, according to The New York Times. The electronic health systems vendor used Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model that’s built for advanced cybersecurity and biology research.

Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget and other “shocks” over the last 10 years have led to a serious and lasting deterioration in the UK population’s mental health, research has found. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the first and second Covid lockdowns also triggered big rises in psychological distress, as measured by the number of people with depression and anxiety. The findings come as Prof Peter Fonagy prepares to publish the report of his long-waited government-commissioned inquiry into the dramatic increases in recent years in diagnoses of mental illness, ADHD and autism. It will be published on Friday amid concern that those conditions help explain why a record 2.8 million Britons are too sick to work and almost 1 million young people aged 16 to 24 have become “Neets” – not in education, employment or training. Researchers led by Dr Annie Jeffery of University College London used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study of 87,857 people aged 16 and older, which was collected every year between 2009 and 2024, to estimate the mental health impact of those five “systemic shocks”.

Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, has co-authored a Nature Health paper suggesting ways to minimize the risk of AI-generated health content.(Photo by Luddy Communications) Risks associated with AI-generated health content are growing. Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Information, Computing, and Engineering, and three Luddy School alumni have co-authored a paper suggesting ways to minimize those risks.