With the province closing its clinics dedicated to treating people with long COVID, the story of Alberta’s innovative rural outreach program appears destined to remain incomplete.
There are real and historic reasons for governments to ban medical procedures, treatments or public behaviours relating to our collective health. But how is that decided?
I'm sitting on the couch completing the charts I've dragged home from the office. Age 14, my daughter Emma confronts me with the eyeroll and contemptuous drawl of the young teenager. “Don’t think I’m ever going to be a doctor, Mom!”
Amy Miller gained public attention last spring when Ontario Teachers' Insurance Plan informed her that it would stop covering the cost of her arthritis medication unless she transferred her prescription to an affiliated pharmacy.
Police and prosecutors said Thursday that additional cases surfaced when they examined patients’ files and carried out forensic examinations of suspected victims, two of whom were exhumed.
U.S. researchers examine whether antihypertensive medication deprescribing is associated with myocardial infarction or stroke in long-term care residents.
