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- 2/13/2024
Private healthcare in Canada is varied and growing: report
It’s ultimately up to the provinces to either constrain or enable its further expansion, according to an article published in C.D. Howe Institute Commentary. - 2/13/2024
What is Alaskapox? Recent death brings attention to virus seen in small animals
For nine years, Alaska health officials have been aware of an unusual virus causing rare, relatively mild illnesses in the Fairbanks area. But a recent case resulted in a man’s death. - 2/13/2024
POLL: Are you confident about patients’ privacy protection when working for commercial virtual care providers?
Physicians are duty-bound to protect their patient’s privacy but those who work for a commercial virtual care provider may have less control over how patient information is gathered and kept safe. - 2/13/2024
B.C. report says climate change brings health risk, as doctor fears ‘colossal harms’
The report on protecting health in a climate emergency, released by Vancouver Coastal Health’s Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Patricia Daly, makes 17 recommendations. - 2/13/2024
Federal government and Northwest Territories sign $36 million in healthcare deals
Lesa Semmler, the N.W.T. health and social services minister, says the deal was worked out in partnership with the territory’s Indigenous governments. - 2/13/2024
Deputy health ministers to consider plan to increase organ donation, transplants
A long-awaited national reporting system on organ donation and transplantation is expected to be in place by the end of the year. - 2/13/2024
Fewer than half of people support assisted death exclusively for mental illness: poll
People who suffer from chronic and incurable mental illness were expected to be able to apply for medical assistance in dying starting in March, but Health Minister Mark Holland tabled legislation earlier this month that would put off their eligibility for another three years. - 2/12/2024
UPDATED: As pharmacare deadline looms, Singh mulls a future without NDP’s deal with Liberals
The NDP signed a political pact with the Liberals in 2022 to support the government on key votes in exchange for progress on shared priorities like pharmacare. - 2/12/2024
Got questions on COVID therapeutics? There’s a helpline for that
The Ontario Pharmacists Association COVID-19 Therapeutic Support Line is exclusively for health professionals with questions about drugs and treatments for the virus. - 2/12/2024
One person taken to hospital after cougar attack in Banff National Park
Cougars are common in Banff National Park, but attacks on humans are rare.