Health in the News

Doctors Nova Scotia says family physicians are increasingly finding their role in the province's healthcare system undervalued and potentially marginalized. The…

Patients in the U.K. will be given the option of "digital first" primary care as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The plan forecasts that primary care and outpatient…

A report from the Broadbent Institute contends there's nearly universal appeal for the idea…

Twenty-six organizations were involved in a two-year workplace mental health pilot project designed by Mindful Employer Canada and the Ontario government. It included case studies, roundtable…

Health Canada will contribute $2.3 million over four years towards an opioid stewardship program in Saskatchewan. The project aims to raise awareness and develop new approaches to chronic pain management by promoting appropriate opioid…

During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, researchers at the University of Waterloo examined that prescribing habits of Ontario family doctors with regards to oral antibiotics. It found that 39% of late-career physicians - those practicing 25 years or…

The Globe and Mail’s André Picard explains how the annual "flu surge" reminds him how hospitals have a chronic capacity problem. Fundamentally, he believes, Canada’s health system problem isn’t ER overcrowding - it’s hospital overcrowding. The…

N.B. Premier Blaine Higgs met with the nurses’ union to find out how soon 25 nurse practitioners could be hired this year to reduce the list. The average number of people on the wait list for a primary care provider over the last two years was 17…

Developed with the support of the Mental Health Commission of Canada's Headstrong mental health program for youths, Indigenous students in Calgary developed…

London ranked sixth-highest in Canada for opioid hospitalization rates in 2017. This is why hospitals in the city will test a protocol designed to decrease the amount of narcotics prescribed for acute pain. Patients who suffer from non-chronic…

A long-term care facility in Drummondville, Que., is training volunteers to perform basic tasks such as feeding residents. The seniors' home is experimenting with the idea to deal with a chronic shortage of paid staff. A spokesperson for the…

Research led by the University of Manitoba says the incomes of workers aged 40 to 61 who suffer heart attack, stroke and/or cardiac arrest are significantly less than similarly-aged…

There’s a growing number of high-risk heart patients on P.E.I., meaning low risk patients are facing longer wait times for a 12-week cardiac rehab program. The program aims to help people recover from heart disease after a heart attack…

Harvard Medical School identified the twenty top-funded private U.S.-based digital health companies to analyze their products and services, related peer-reviewed evidence and the potential for impact on patients with high-burden conditions. The…

The Ontario government has a number of measures to address mental health challenges suffered by farmers. To highlight the programs and to diminish the stigma associated…

Meds to Beds, which provides patients with their prescription medications before discharge, is underway at Grand River Hospital and its satellite campuses in Kitchener. The program lessens the chance that a patient will leave the hospital without…