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- 3/17/2024
Saskatchewan and Ottawa announce $560 million in health funding agreement
Almost $391 million is through a bilateral agreement to support Saskatchewan’s three-year action plan to improve healthcare by creating better access to services, including acute and urgent care, and to reduce backlogs. - 3/17/2024
Resolve in defeat: J.J. McCarthy and the CaRMs UnMatchables
Going unmatched in 2003 gave me some serious doubts about my abilities. My skills. Was it a mistake to go into medicine? Could I be happy in another field? Did I leave the stove on? - 3/17/2024
Quebec woman gives birth outside after finding hospital door locked
The health authority says employees heard noises outside the Ste-Croix hospital early Tuesday morning and discovered the woman and her newborn. - 3/17/2024
Some doctors sneak education into their online content to drown out misinformation
The algorithms that feed compelling content to users can bolster their fears. - 3/17/2024
New study finds no brain injuries among ‘Havana syndrome’ patients
The nearly five-year study offers no explanation for symptoms including headaches, balance problems and difficulties with thinking and sleep that were first reported in Cuba in 2016 and later by hundreds of American personnel. - 3/14/2024
Kid guilt
Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes grapples with guilt over the perceived imbalance between a demanding medical career and the time spent with her children. - 3/14/2024
The obsessive passion: is it a way to escape?
Sometimes passionate interests serve as escapes from underlying issues, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam. - 3/14/2024
Five tips: Assessing the potential for QT-prolongation drug interactions
Picture this: you’re filling/verifying prescriptions and you get that all too familiar pop-up that notifies you of a QT-prolongation interaction . . . how should you approach this? - 3/14/2024
The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines
As a historian of premodern Japan, Alessandro Poletto has studied its healing experts. Both literature and historical records demonstrate that the boundaries between what are often called ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ were indistinct. - 3/14/2024
A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study, expanding options for screening
The test looks for DNA fragments shed by tumor cells and precancerous growths. It’s already for sale in the U.S. for $895, but has not actually been approved by the FDA, yet.