Reading Time: 4 minutes Every three minutes someone visits an Ontario doctor for oral health issues. But physicians aren’t trained or equipped to provide appropriate treatment
Category: Health
Canada answering the global need for health research
Reading Time: 3 minutes This World Health Day, Canada has much to be proud of, but much more can be done to address a variety of health issues with worldwide implications
The best kind of social medicine in Medicine Hat
Reading Time: 3 minutes By eliminating homelessness, the Alberta city has reduced the crime rate, the workload on first responders, hospital emergency visits and pressure on the courts
Canada should stop living in the health-care funding past
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation as part of an improved funding model
What medicines do we really need in Canada?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As well as providing patients with critical medications when they need them, an essential medicines list helps patients get the right medicine
Nova Scotia rationing primary health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nova Scotia Health Authority insists on deciding who will have primary-care physicians and who will not, leaving seniors and expecting parents in the lurch
Defusing the ticking time bomb of postpartum depression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The biggest predictors of postpartum depression are prenatal depression and a history of depression before conception
Why is it so hard for mothers to breastfeed in Canada?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Members of the public can help by supporting women’s right to breastfeed in public and demanding baby-friendly standards in health-care settings
Parliament debating legislation to curb genetic discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes While genome analysis can alter the very practice of medicine, there is a fear it can be used to discriminate on the ground of genetic characteristics
Don’t let seniors’ care in Canada become a private equity money maker
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pressure to make a profit in seniors homes often leads to cost-cutting measures such as reduced staffing that undermine the quality of care