Healthcare

Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed more than 9,000 people online and had in-person discussions with dozens more across Canada to talk about their experiences with primary care and how to fix it.

Governments in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have made family medicine a priority—and backed their words with targeted funding. Ontario must as well.

Ontario pharmacies will be $39 million better off after both changes.

A family doctor walks into a bar, and cries, ‘Ouch my head! It’s so dark in here I didn’t see the friggin’ bar overhead!’

The Canadian Pharmacists Association says its firmly against payer-directed care and wants several regulatory changes to protect Canadian patients.

A retired FP looks at the disparity between the fees paid to him decades ago and what the inflation-adjusted amounts should be—and what Ontario actually pays now.

The NDP confirmed on Friday that it reached a deal on pharmacare with the Liberals, which would allow every Canadian with a health card to access free diabetes medication and birth control.

‘Compared to an X-ray, an alpha particle is vastly more damaging to our DNA, generating mutations that drive our cells, in the lung, toward cancer.’