Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation that threatens our health systems, argue authors in an editorial in CMAJ.

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People sometimes refer to communicable diseases as “infectious” or “transmissible” diseases. Pathogens, including bacteria , viruses , fungi , and protozoa, cause communicable diseases.

Residents in infectious diseases can combine their clinical training with research training in microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology or cell and molecular biology. Current research projects ...