Health in the News

Quebec-based DermaGo is an online platform that allows patients to connect virtually with a dermatologist for a fee. Using a camera-enabled digital device, patients take photographs of their skin…

Grace Losier resigned as chair of the board of Horizon Health Network. The Liberal-appointed chair says she stepped down at the request of Health Minister Ted Flemming, and that someone working for Flemming had given her the choice of resigning…

The executive director for the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs says access to treatments for opioid and other forms of addiction is largely predicated on where a person lives. He explains that supervised consumption sites only exist…

The U.K.'s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is calling on obesity to be officially recognized as a chronic disease in order to address it more effectively. It issued a call for the government and the broader health sector to recognize obesity as…

The U.K.'s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is calling on obesity to be officially recognized as a chronic disease in order to address it more effectively. It issued a call for the government and the broader health sector to recognize obesity as…

The Main Street Medical Clinic in Springdale, Nfld., opened satellite offices in seven communities in the province, offering opioid addiction treatment services. The owner explains that patients used…

The B.C. government says there's no province-wide mental health resource available to post-secondary students, which is why it plans to introduce a virtual counselling, information and referral service that'll be available 24/7. The program will…

Remote northern communities often lack access to affordable fresh food which is a situation that can affect the health of people living there. This is why, on a weekly basis, patients at Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre are served…

Fifteen healthcare practitioners in the Belleville, Ont. area are taking part in an 18-month trial to determine if social prescribing is beneficial to individuals with depression, anxiety and loneliness. Similar to a program in Montreal in which…

While the Public Health Agency of Canada publishes statistics on the number of individuals who suffer fatal overdoses as a result of opioids, some physicians in Vancouver say there are no comparable data for people who suffer brain damage from…

A study led by Dalhousie University found that between 1997 and 2015, First Nations children were more likely to require neonatal intensive care and had higher incidences of…

A judge issued an injunction preventing naturopathic doctors in the province from saying they’re qualified to practise medicine in the province. Although naturopaths are professionally regulated in other Canadian provinces, they remain…

A pilot project at Western Hospital in Alberton has caught the attention of the CMA. President Dr. Gigi Osler was in P.E.I. to have a first-hand look at Western Hospital’s tele-rounding project, which was launched in August. Tele-rounding was…

McMaster University researchers found that there is generally lower access to fresh produce in rural grocery stores compared to urban. The study…

Research led by the University of Toronto found 98,097 errors at 301 community pharmacies in Nova Scotia between 2010 and 2017. Of those, 928 resulted in patient harm. In its…

No shows are patients who don’t bother to show up or call to cancel their appointment. A family practice in St. John’s calculated the total wasted time created by no shows (that could have been used to see patients) to be 571 hours since November…