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The Four Arrows Regional Health Authority mobile addiction team includes an office assistant for data collection, a counselor, a peer worker and a nurse with expertise in harm reduction. The pilot addresses problematic substance use in remote Man…
Nova Scotians who are on the provincial wait-list for a family doctor can sign up for a free service that offers online appointments with a doctor or NP. Previously, people needed an email invitation to use…
The CRTC will use 988 as the suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline, the same three digits adopted in the U.S. Once active, Canadians will be able to call or text it and be directed to mental health services free of charge. The…
The COVID-19 mortality rate was significantly higher for racialized populations (31 deaths per 100,000 population) compared with the non-racialized and non-Indigenous population (22 deaths per 100,000 population).
A Toronto neurology centre is using virtual clinics to cut wait times for patient referrals. The virtual clinics cut the number of days between referral and appointment overall by 25% and up to 38%, depending on the condition. The technology…
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction dramatically revised the recommendations for low-risk…
Statistics Canada reports that N.B. had the second-highest cancer rate in Canada in 2019 at 655 cases per 100,000 people. The most common type of cancer in N.B. in 2019 was lung and bronchus cancer, at 99.1 cases per 100,000 people, followed by…
EDs at The Moncton Hospital (TMH) and Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) experienced critical shortages of nursing staff the weekend of Aug. 26-28. During that time, Horizon asked patients with non-life-threatening medical needs to not come to…
The federal government’s plan will target families with an annual income of under $90,000. That's a huge leap from N.B.’s payer-of-last resort program, which covers adults on social assistance and youth under 18 from low-income families. The…
A report from Statistics Canada projects Canada's population could reach 47 million in 2043 and 56 million by 2068 under a medium-growth scenario. Other…
A national physician health survey found that nearly half of respondents screened positive for depression, up significantly since the 2017 survey (33%). Other…
Up to 750 Manitobans waiting for hip and knee replacement surgeries could get care out-of-province, after the provincial government signed three agreements with providers in Thunder Bay, Ont., Fargo, N.D. and Cleveland, Ohio. Patients will be…
Ont.-based researchers found that Alta., B.C. and Ont. saw twice the increase in pediatric hospitalizations than Que., which prohibited edibles at the time of the study. They found…
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) says health authorities in B.C. gave out about $393 million worth of contracts to private clinics to provide surgeries and medical imaging over the past six years, with a 57% surge in annual…
In 2019, the rate of cancer diagnoses increased from 547.5 to 550.2 cases per 100,000 Canadians, a consequence of both population growth and population aging. When considering all cancer types together, an east-west gradient is observed with…
The NoMoreWaitlists.net platform allows people to find and book appointments with doctors, specialists, daycares and natural practitioners that don’t have wait times. It’s the only online platform in…