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- 7/20/2023
Pfizer reports North Carolina pharmaceutical plant damaged by tornado, no serious injuries
The plant produces anesthesia and other drugs as well as nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medications used in U.S. hospitals. - 7/20/2023
Recent resignations suggest industry has too much sway with Health Canada: NDP
Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a health-sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, stepped down as co-chair of the department’s scientific advisory committee on pest control products late last month. - 7/20/2023
Undue influence? Anonymous donations to World Health Organization’s new foundation raise concerns
Nearly 40% of the money raised by the WHO Foundation in its first two years came from anonymous sources. - 7/19/2023
When patients test your patience
Pharmacy technician Alicia Levman provides some tips on keeping cool when patients behave badly. - 7/19/2023
B.C. doctors perceive a heavy hand in new act governing health professions
Penalties for speaking out? The Medical Post’s B.C. columnist looks at the impact of the new Health Professions and Occupations Act - 7/19/2023
Sometimes the truth is unbearable
Because of the delays in one patient's healthcare, her cancer had spread to bone and lung. She had wasted 18 months on the waitlist. I have hundreds of stories like this. - 7/19/2023
Alberta moves to decentralize healthcare delivery, 15 years after centralizing it
The decision sets in motion a reversal of government policy that began almost 30 years ago when then-premier Ralph Klein collapsed more than 200 health boards and agencies into 17 regional health authorities. - 7/19/2023
Ontario boosts pediatric healthcare funding by $330M a year
The government says it will allow children’s hospitals to significantly increase staffing and provide more services. - 7/18/2023
Boy who died from asthma amid wildfire smoke is ‘face of climate crisis,’ doctor says
Dr. Melissa Lem, says Carter Vigh’s death underscores the urgent need to better protect vulnerable people from the effects of wildfires and other climate change-driven emergencies. - 7/18/2023
A Dutch court convicts a man of assisting in at least 10 suicides by selling a deadly drug online
The Netherlands was the first nation to legalize euthanasia. A 2002 law allowed physicians to end the lives of patients under strict conditions, either by administering a fatal dose of drugs or giving the patient the drugs to take.