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- 10/3/2023
Free online resource your chronic pain patients should know about
Learn what the Power Over Pain portal—funded by Health Canada and created in collaboration with multiple Canadian institution—can provide for your patients. - 10/3/2023
Thousands of U.S. healthcare workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing about 85,000 of the health system’s employees nationally, approved a strike for three days in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and for one day in Virginia and Washington, D.C. - 10/2/2023
Clinicians ‘all alone’ when integrating digital health advances
We have all this data—what are we doing with it? - 10/2/2023
Neighbourly Pharmacy signs deal with largest shareholder to go private
Shares in Neighbourly, which owns a network of community pharmacies across Canada, closed down 44 cents at $12.12 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday. - 10/2/2023
Alberta says first steps to reform provincial health delivery system coming this fall
Premier Danielle Smith says the first steps are coming this fall to reconfigure Alberta’s health delivery system—a plan the Opposition calls a recipe for more chaos from a government fresh off turning lab testing into a debacle. - 10/2/2023
Ontario Pharmacists Association says ability to prescribe birth control should be next
Pharmacists in Ontario can now diagnose and treat 19 common ailments but they still can't prescribe birth control or emergency contraception. - 10/2/2023
Adolescent ER visits for eating disorders saw big jump during pandemic: Ont. study
Researchers found the rate of ER visits in the 10-to-17 age group was 7.38 per 100,000 in the latter period, up 121% over the expected rate of 3.33, based on pre-pandemic trends. - 10/2/2023
UN authorizes a second malaria vaccine. Experts warn it's not enough to stop the disease spreading
Oxford University developed the new three-dose vaccine with help from the Serum Institute of India. - 10/1/2023
Case report: Related issues?
A recent case at Dr. Robert Dickson's clinic reminds him never to take health concerns at face value. - 9/29/2023
Woman pleads guilty to calling in hoax bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital
A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to calling in a fake bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths.