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The World Health Organisation plans to eliminate the disease as a major public health concern by 2030. NHS England hopes to do it in seven years. Health leaders will call on the pharmaceutical industry to work with them to provide best value for…
A report from the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) uses data from…
A Dutch study found men responding to an early retirement offer were 2.6 percentage points less likely to die over the next five years than those who did not retire early. An…
In 2016, Massachusetts-based non-profit Atrius Health conducted 251 empathy forums, training 90% of its staff in 90-minute sessions to integrate empathy into their daily work. The effort, the provider claims, resulted in an increase in patient…
The director of hospitals, emergency departments and alternate level of care for an LHIN in southwestern Ontario praises the Intensive Hospital to Home pilot project.…
A poll for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada finds 68% of respondents would feel helpless if they or a loved one were given a blood cancer diagnosis. The class of illnesses includes leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma or Hodgkin's disease.…
St. Catharines' Brock University researchers say almost half of all doctors’ appointments do not start on time. In two separate studies, they found…
The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety developed StressAssess, an online survey tool to identify psychosocial hazards that can lead to…
The C.D. Howe Institute compared healthcare systems in 11 OECD countries and found Canada was ahead of only France and the U.S. on performance metrics. To remedy the perceived shortcomings of domestic healthcare delivery, the institute recommends…
The appointment comes after the release of a report on loneliness last year by the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness which found about nine million people report often or…
A number of companies are already offering chatbots for healthcare. One doctor in Arizona has been using bots for administrative tasks, but his practice decided to also use this function for its annual flu initiative. During flu season, the…
A Kaiser Permanente study finds cognitive behavioral…
Six mental health and domestic violence agencies in London-Middlesex are working together on a…
Patients and healthcare providers have been encouraged over the past months to pledge to improve compassionate quality care in Ontario as part of Change Day Ontario. Almost 6,000 visitors made pledges…
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins' Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality developed SPADE (Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of…
The Ontario government will provide health services to homeless people at five Toronto shelters in a pilot project set to get underway later this year. The provincial health minister says mental health supports, chronic disease management and…