POLL: Do you feel an emotional impact when you learn a patient has died?Take our weekly doctor poll. See what your colleagues say. Right to refuse: Appeals board backs doctor who rejected patient with 'aggressive' and 'bullying' motherThe patient's mother was 'very devoted' and has had to navigate medical care since her son’s birth, wrote the board. But doctors also have a right to be treated with respect. Pharmacists needed to improve palliative care guidelines The Alberta College of Pharmacy is looking for 10 pharmacists to review the Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care Competency Framework. Physical activity may protect women from Parkinson’s disease too Results based on E3N cohort, a large French study that has been following 100,000 women since 1990 Nova Scotia health officials say legionella outbreak in New Glasgow considered over The outbreak of the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease had been monitored by Public Health since early July. Mortality rose in 2021, led by cancer, heart disease, overdoses and COVID 19: StatCan Life expectancy also fell once again from 81.7 years to 81.6 years. It had decreased in 2020 by 0.6 years. Racism partly to blame for unequal healthcare provided to Indigenous women: PHAC study Researchers used data for all females aged 15 to 55 from the annual Canadian Community Health Survey between 2015 and 2020. Preferred and referred: New study shows male specialists are favoured by both male and female referring doctors Researchers found male specialists get more referrals than their female counterparts. They also get paid more, according to the Ontario Medical Association study. The obesity epidemic is fueled by biology, not lack of willpower The brain wants us to eat as much as we can because it thinks it’s helping us survive, and it has the power to overwhelm our best intentions. Net-zero healthcare by 2050: What Canada needs to succeed Presentation at CMA health summit while wildfires tear across Northwest Territories, B.C. First Previous 121 122 123 124 125 Next Last