Reading Time: 3 minutes The tragic consequences will continue until health ministries’ introduce meaningful policy to eliminate gaps in this essential element of personal care
Category: Health
In the fight for kids’ attention, parents don’t stand a chance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Study shows Canadian kids see more than 25 million online food and beverage ads a year – mostly for junk food. It’s time for that to end
Medical schools failing to help students develop their careers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Admission into medical school is not a ticket to a successful career. Physicians actually have a higher rate of unemployment than the national average
Why so many Canadians seek out-of-country health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lack of available resources or procedures at home, desire to access more advanced technologies and to avoid Canada’s long wait times are chief among the reasons
Private health care isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution
Reading Time: 3 minutes While some patients may be able to wait for treatment without suffering adverse consequences, many others may be in pain, unable to work or live full lives
Bring epilepsy awareness out of the dark ages
Reading Time: 3 minutes You might think negative views of epileptic seizures as a sign of demonic possession are a relic of our distant past but you’d be wrong
Putting a stop to health care that lacks value
Reading Time: 3 minutes Choosing Wisely is helping obstetricians and gynecologists target reductions in unnecessary care that may harm patients and cost the Canadian health system
Proposed changes could reduce access to prescription drugs
Reading Time: 4 minutes While well-intentioned, changes to Patented Medicine Prices Review Board could stop companies from launching new drugs
What should we pay for in our publicly-funded health system?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we are going to invest more money, we should place it where we can improve people’s health, recognizing that more service is not always better
Assisted dying and the dark corners of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need to learn from the lessons of history when considering assisted dying for those with disabilities – no matter how unsettling that history may be