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Top Toronto health official wins rare intervenor status in court battle over vaccinating couple’s children

Article content Toronto’s chief public-health official has won the right to intervene in a court dispute over vaccinating a divorced couple’s children, a rare step Dr. Eileen de Villa says was necessary to combat dangerous misinformation about vaccines. The city’s medical officer of health (MOH) now has lawyers taking part in an appeal slated for… Read More »

Naturopathy is poised to ‘disrupt’ health-care status quo, proponents of controversial practice say

Its practitioners have a “philosophical aversion” to prescription drugs, embrace homeopathy — a practice experts dismiss as scientifically preposterous  — and believe vitamin supplements can alter the course of incurable diseases. Now, proponents of naturopathy say the practice is poised to ultimately “disrupt” the status quo in health care. A new commentary argues naturopathy fulfills… Read More »