Health in the News

This Doctors Nova Scotia position paper outlines recommendations for palliative care delivery. These include:

The province will invest $5 million to put more mental health workers in schools, representing a 50% hike in the grant funding. The expansion will add 15 more programs to serve a up to 100,000 K-12 students, up from the 65,000 children and youth…

NHS England aims to make mental health services for new and expectant mothers in underserved parts of the country accessible within a year. NHS suggests only 3% of the country had good access to perinatal mental healthcare as recently as 2014,…

The consultation will focus on developing a framework to support access to palliative care and provide a reference point across jurisdictions for opportunities, gaps and best practices. Stakeholders are invited to share their views…

Geisinger Health will make DNA sequencing of individual patients a routine part of preventative healthcare at its facilities. The testing will form part of its standard screening tests along the lines of mammograms, colonoscopies and…

The funding will be used for three new initiatives from the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information (NLCHI) aimed at growing the life sciences sector. Nearly $4 million will be used to assess, design and implement a Health Data…

The target systolic blood pressure for patients over 50 at risk of heart complications was 140, meaning anyone above that should receive treatment. But in 2016, Hypertension Canada changed its guidelines to recommend that number be lowered…

London, Ont. EMS officials are asking hospitals to change and improve the way nurses intervene to bring patients into the city’s emergency rooms. Paramedics in the region are spending thousands of hours stranded with patients waiting to get into…

The Behavioral Insights Health Project at Harvard will explore how behavioural science and behavioural economics can help improve health outcomes for patients and decisions made by doctors. It will draw on the expertise of doctors, public health…

The project aims to improve prevention and treatment of strokes, increase patients' quality of life after strokes and reduce their socioeconomic impact. The computer models and…

This Cardus Health case study of hospitals in Hamilton concludes current infrastructure is inadequate to handle palliative care needs of the "silver tsunami". The think tank found…

The program encourages doctors to accept patients in the provincial wait list (which stood at close to 44,000 in March) by offering them a one-time $150 bonus per patient. The province says family doctors took almost 900 new patients in the first…

The provincial government says its recruitment and retention efforts have paid off. It shows that since 2007, there was a 51% increase in the number of physicians in the province. There are more than 2,600 licensed physicians now practicing in…

As of Jan. 2019, Ontario long-term care home operators can face fines of up to $10,000 each time they're found to be in contravention of the province's quality standards. Furthermore, criminal prosecutions could result in fines of up to $200,000…

Colo.-based Sopris Health's app records a doctor visit, then downloads the audio file into its cloud transcription software, which can understand context and medical terminology and separate…

As the federal government considers a national pharmacare plan, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions estimates up to 1,000 Canadians die…