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Health in the News
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Patients in the top 1% of healthcare spending in North America account for 25% to 40% of total healthcare expenditures in a given year. As part of the study, the Alta. researchers categorized high-cost patients into distinctive groups within the…
As children’s organizd sports were cancelled and screen time went up over the past two years, Western University's Child Health and Physical Activity Lab set out to find how the pandemic shifted family activity levels. The researchers found most…
The study found that roughly 3% of patients who were hospitalized for more than 24 hours with COVID-19 pneumonia developed new-onset dementia over a median of…
Researchers at the Women’s College Hospital demonstrated a significant gap in care for a high-risk population as they found less than half of postpartum…
The Guelph-Wellington Paramedic Service will use increased funding from the province to expand its remote monitoring program capacity from 50 clients to 100. The program allows older adults to retain their independence and live at home while also…
The Association for Canadian Studies shows the rate of reported infection is higher than what official data suggest. It found:
The University of California San Francisco posits individuals with…
Thousands of B.C. paramedics were trained in a care model that aims to keep palliative patients out of hospital as long as possible. The ASTaR initiative, which stands…
The province is providing an additional 200,000 to Westminster House Society to support several of their programs, including treatment and recovery for youth, trauma-informed gender-specific…
The study found that two in five adults with ADHD reported almost daily happiness or life satisfaction in the past month, freedom from mental illness in the previous year…
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Ontario home health provider VHA Home HealthCare is working to understand and support diversity in its workforce through an annual DEI report - one…
The report brings attention to mental health challenges faced by over 10,000 youth in the province and offers actions at the grassroots level. The…
The provincial government is investing $1.2 million dollars to create additional peer-assisted care teams, also known as PACTs, wich made up of…
The study is providing more insight into the degree to which lockdowns and…
The pandemic drove an increased need for patients to connect with providers in new ways. As such, USask was awarded $150,000 by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to create a roadmap for delivering integrated and patient-centred virtual…