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• 1/10/2024

  Virtual ERs are still the topic of debate, but this one saved a life

  A 12-bed hospital in a small N.L. town found itself at the centre of a heated debate about staff shortages in rural healthcare when the province signed a contract to staff its emergency department virtually.
• 1/9/2024

  People with private drug coverage more likely to stick to prescriptions: StatCan

  The results of the study come as the New Democrats and the government negotiate the broad principles that will shape a federal pharmacare program.
• 1/9/2024

  Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in healthcare

  While there is a long history of doctor-poets—one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician—few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.
• 1/9/2024

  Nova Scotia fourth province to sign detailed health accord with Ottawa

  British Columbia was the first to sign a one-on-one deal with the federal government in October, followed by Prince Edward Island and Alberta just before Christmas.
• 1/9/2024

  Resistance (exercise) is far from futile: The unheralded benefits of weight training

  For too long, though, one way of keeping fit, aerobic exercise, has been perceived as superior to the other, resistance training, for promoting health when, in fact, they are equally valuable.
• 1/9/2024

  B.C. ditching pap tests for Canada’s first at-home self-screened cervical cancer plan

  A localized pilot project that started in 2021 has shown that at-home screening for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, is more effective at finding pre-cancerous lesions and provides patients with fewer barriers compared with the pap test.
• 1/8/2024

  Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk by maintaining brain plasticity—but the time to act is now

  We know that making lifestyle changes is hard. Ask anyone who has tried to keep their New Year’s resolution to visit the gym three times a week.
• 1/8/2024

  Pope Francis calls for a universal ban on surrogacy. He says it exploits mother and child

  Saying a child is a gift and ‘never the basis of a commercial contract,’ he called for a global ban on surrogacy ‘to prohibit this practice universally.’
• 1/8/2024

  It’s not your imagination: Hospital patients getting more complex according to study in B.C.

  Dr. Hiten Naik, an internal medicine physician and research fellow at the University of British Columbia, said policymakers need to invest more in hospital care teams that include pharmacists and physiotherapists.
• 1/7/2024

  Feds must decide whether ‘all Canadians’ have right to assisted dying: senator

  A joint committee of parliamentarians was asked last fall to study the question whether the healthcare system was ready and the Liberals now face the choice of whether to go ahead with broadening the rules.