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- 11/25/2018
National pharmacare by 2020 would cost $9.7 B in public funding but save more in total costs: analysis
A new analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) outlines the potential government cost of a national Canadian pharmacare program and sets out approaches to shifting the funding for drugs in Canada to realize billions in savings. - 11/25/2018
Canada's first cannabis-only researcher to explore medicinal potential of 90 unstudied cannabinoids
Yang Qu hopes to lead the way in unlocking the full potential of cannabis—both commercially and medicinally—just as he did as one of Canada's foremost anti-cancer drug researchers. - 11/25/2018
A modern portrait of a family medicine resident
Dr. Heba Shamsi is a newly minted physician. She’s smart, passionate, and in many ways representative of the next generation of family doctor - 11/25/2018
What if . . . FPs ran their own primary care teams?
Right now Canadian doctors generally have to see patients themselves to treat and bill. But what if they didn’t? - 11/25/2018
Will email unlock the future of primary care?
Probably, but the fact that we don’t know yet has frustrated virtually every patient and many doctors - 11/25/2018
To sleep, perchance to scream
Your physician-approved and not-totally-legal way to deal with a snoring partner - 11/25/2018
More than 700,000 Canadians borrow money to afford medication
Younger people are also much more likely than middle aged people to have faced difficulties paying for prescriptions - 11/25/2018
Why natural depression therapies are better than pills
Antidepressants bring in almost $17 billion a year for the pharmaceutical industry, and yet science shows their benefit to be small