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Alberta Health Services reports 205 residents took advantage of physician-assisted death last year. In the last six months of 2017, there were 102 such deaths, one-third more than in the same period the year before, when the procedure first…
Diabetes is usually treated with one medication, while other drugs and insulin are added if the disease worsens. This wait-and-see approach has been turned on its head by a study in which doctors treat patients aggressively from the start with…
The Ontario government budgeted $5.47 million for 12 projects approved through its Health Technologies Fund.…
A government report found out-of-pocket expenses to medical and dental patients accounted for 20% of all healthcare spending in Australia, disadvantaging low income earners, chronic disease sufferers, the elderly and people in rural areas. The…
A dementia-friendly ward at the Royal Free Hospital in London has been transformed to look like 1970s Hampstead High Street. The space was transformed into a "therapeutic and reminiscence space" for elder patients and to provide people with…
Researchers examining frequent ED users at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital suggest ED-based care coordination can help hospitals reduce ED use, hospitalizations and costs for frequent ED users.
Moody’s Analytics report supports the idea that the social determinants of health significantly drive the…
The federal government will hire Ottawa-based Advanced Symbolics, which specializes in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence, to forecast spikes in suicide rates.
E-STI testing is currently being implemented in the U.K. to meet increasing demand for STI testing. This trial, among people living in London, found…
U.S. healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente says a telestroke program has streamlined the health system's stroke care across 21 hospitals. The redesigned acute stroke workflow sees a dedicated telestroke neurologist manage all emergency stroke…
More than 4,400 prescription medications are now free for children and youth age 24 and under, the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation for Ontario families. Medications covered by…
For people who are in the workforce already, the added burden of unpaid caregiving for a family member or loved one may lead to insomnia and other sleep issues, according to a…
A team comprised of a mental health clinician, two nurses and two student outreach workers is supporting the needs of students and their parents at two families of schools in western P.E.I. Health PEI says 130 students have accessed the service,…
In a position statement, the College of Family…
The report states that at least 1,460 Canadians have died from opioid-…
Medimap is a website that shows the estimated length of time it should take to see a doctor at walk-in clinics. The tool's now being launched in Winnipeg. Every half hour, staff from participating…