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‘Not much has changed’: Indigenous physicians reflect on healthcare in Canada
Dr. Michael Anderson clearly remembers a First Nations child flown into the Toronto pediatric ward where he was working 30 years ago. Standing in front of the nursing station, Dr. Anderson overheard a doctor he considered a mentor say the child’s parents will ‘be drunk for a week.’
‘A few processes to go through’: LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal in Alberta
The group representing Alberta’s doctors have said the government is dragging its feet in implementing the new deal and putting patients’ lives at risk in the process.

Medical residents face disproportionately higher risk of pregnancy complications: study

Some of the risk factors identified by the researchers include working more than 10 hours a day in the second trimester, working six night shifts per month and working eight hours a day in the operating room.
Premier Smith announces plan to reinforce vaccine choice in Alberta Bill of Rights

University of Calgary law professor Lorian Hardcastle said it’s hard to know the impacts without seeing the amending legislation.
Canada’s genetic testing not ready for influx of rare disease drugs: Takeda Canada report

Canada needs an equitable, pan-Canadian genetic testing system, argues the report on the healthcare system and rare diseases.
New Brunswick Liberals pledge overhaul of recruitment for health professionals

The latest announcement adds to previous Liberal commitments to establish at least 30 new community care clinics to help cut primary care wait-times and a program to provide retention payments to nurses.
Manitoba government rolls out new age requirements for breast cancer screening

The province says it plans to progressively lower the age for self-referrals to 40 from 50, with a plan to get to the age of 45 for testing by the end of next year.
High insulin prices spur a U.S. federal lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers

Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States—Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx—have engaged in anticompetitive practices that spur price increases, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.
‘Disappointed:’ Dr. David Price on call to remove him as FMF keynote

The 4 doctors on the Ont. gov’t’s negotiating team ‘help the ministry understand’ implications of OMA proposals, he says.
‘Scotch Tape and wet paper’: Healing fragile B.C. health system is key election issue

Mike Goetz has added bill collector to his list of responsibilities as mayor of Merritt in British Columbia’s Interior. In June, he sent the province an invoice for $103,831.87, the cost, he said, for closures of the Nicola Valley Hospital emergency room.

‘Not much has changed’: Indigenous physicians reflect on healthcare in Canada

‘A few processes to go through’: LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal in Alberta

Medical residents face disproportionately higher risk of pregnancy complications: study

Premier Smith announces plan to reinforce vaccine choice in Alberta Bill of Rights

Canada’s genetic testing not ready for influx of rare disease drugs: Takeda Canada report

New Brunswick Liberals pledge overhaul of recruitment for health professionals

Manitoba government rolls out new age requirements for breast cancer screening

High insulin prices spur a U.S. federal lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers

‘Disappointed:’ Dr. David Price on call to remove him as FMF keynote

‘Scotch Tape and wet paper’: Healing fragile B.C. health system is key election issue

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