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B.C. stuffs doctors’ mouths with gold: $135,000 raise

Reading Time: 3 minutes Will they take the money and run or stick to their principles?

Crowded emergency rooms adding hidden costs to health-care system

Reading Time: 3 minutes Overburdened emergency physicians tend to order more tests for less-severe patients

No need to choose between lower taxes and health care

Reading Time: 3 minutes Failings of the health system are not due to chronic underfunding

Bureaucracy may be necessary, but it is never harmless

Reading Time: 4 minutes There is nothing that bureaucracy cannot make worse

Healthcare user fees promote equity and efficiency

Reading Time: 4 minutes Offer a small step to solving overconsumption and waste

Hospital woes continue to mount – nothing new here

Reading Time: 3 minutes More money won’t solve the systemic, pervasive, and structural issues that plague Canadian health care

Canadian health care at a crossroads

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to stop talking about money and start talking about changing health care

U of A spinoff, U.S. firm merge to commercialize transplant technology

Cardiac surgery professors Jayan Nagendran (left) and Darren Freed with the EVOSS system they developed to extend the time donated lungs can be kept healthy while they are transported for transplant. The innovative technology took a major step toward approval, manufacture and global distribution with the merger of the U of A spinoff company Tevosol and the U.S.-based medical tech company Bridge to Life. (Photo: University Hospital Foundation)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bridge to Life commits US$10 million to clinical trial and commercial development of Tevosol Ex-Vivo Organ Support System

Stem cell therapy research for Type 1 diabetes receives funding

Greg Korbutt (left) and Andrew Pepper are members of a research team aiming to develop insulin-producing stem cells that won’t trigger an immune response, so transplant patients wouldn't need to take anti-rejection drugs. (Photo: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, May 2019)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Three U of A researchers will help lead projects to advance treatments for patients

Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients in Canada face the longest wait time for elective surgery on record

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