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- 3/28/2023
Key highlights from the latest federal budget
The budget delivers on billions in healthcare cash flowing to provinces and territories. - 3/28/2023
Other programs can help uninsured, Ontario health minister says as coverage to end
Sylvia Jones said uninsured patients can still receive healthcare through other programs after the Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program ends this Friday. - 3/28/2023
Ontario minister defends covering fewer eye exams for seniors
The province announced Friday that it had reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increases some payments to them, but reduces some coverage for patients. - 3/28/2023
Case report: An oceanic rash
Swimming in the ocean can have its drawback as discovered by a patient at Dr. Dickson's clinic. - 3/28/2023
N.B. patients and family of mystery brain disease call for fresh investigations
Steve Ellis, whose father is sick, told a news conference today that federal experts should continue investigating the cause of the disease, of which symptoms include rapidly progressing dementia, muscle spasms, atrophy and a host of other complications. - 3/28/2023
Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss
Dr. Britney Grayson had just finished regaling children at the small religious grade school about Kenya, where she works on missions, when she drove out of the parking lot looking for a Starbucks. - 3/28/2023
NAPRA seeks comments on drug schedule change for pediatric loratadine products
National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee issues interim recommendations on drug schedule status change for loratadine products used in children two to 11 years of age. - 3/28/2023
Blank pages and empty spaces
Even in the emptiness there is alway something, as Dr. Gary Kinney discovers. - 3/28/2023
Feds launch new Model Practice Standard for MAiD
The new model aims to help clinicians and regulators alike through complex cases. - 3/28/2023
B.C. to announce plan for access to diabetes drug Ozempic, hyped for weight loss
Adrian Dix said in January that the government would be investigating why almost 10% of prescriptions for the drug in B.C. were filled for American citizens.