Health in the News

In joining the Choosing Wisely campaign, the Canadian Pharmacists Association compiled a list of six common practices and therapies that may be unnecessary and could potentially harm…

A report from the C.D. Howe Institute found Canadians will be forced to pay more taxes in the years to come as the country's…

Health Canada says stakeholders can offer their input into the federal government's law legalizing cannabis on July 1, 2018. As…

A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information determines that in 2016, 21.5 million prescriptions for opioids were…

Kaiser Permanente physicians in Southern California were found to have reduced the odds of prescribing an antibiotic for sinusitis by 22% through the use of computer alerts to inform doctors when antibiotics may not be the best course of…

It’s being considered the first app of its kind in the U.K., as it’s the first to combine waiting time information with travel times.

The grounds of a hospital that once housed mentally ill patients in Coquitlam will be the site of a facility for people suffering from mental health and addiction. The B.C. government will reopen its 105-bed Riverview psychiatric hospital in 2019…

P.E.I. is piloting an approach to long-term care to help Acadian and Francophone residents at Summerset Manor’s receive care in their primary language. The project will allow people with French as a mother tongue to get housing and care in a…

As part of its digital transformation project, England’s Southampton General Hospital is rolling…

A healthcare task force consisting of a partnership of nine Manitoba municipalities recommend closing four emergency rooms in the region and replacing them with urgent care centres. The task force recommends some hospitals have urgent care…

A report (available for purchase) by the Canadian Health Policy Institute estimates…

A report from the Montreal Economic Institute argues against a lower maximum price for pharmaceuticals. The think tank points out that if Health Canada follows…

The Children and Youth Mental Health survey found 62% of youth reported having concerns about anxiety and 46% of them report missing school because of it. While 33% of parents said they had a child who missed school because of anxiety,…

England’s health services were changed in 2013, when two-thirds of the National Health Service budget was transferred to family doctors. The government planned for this to help more patients be treated cheaply and locally, rather that having them…

A study from the Fraser Institute finds that the migration of seniors impacts the health…

Infoway and digital health provider OntarioMD aim to reduce redundancies in privacy and security requirements for EMR vendors for their respective organizations by aligning their certifications. Eighty…