Dr. John Dornan, Chief of Staff, Horizon Health Network shares his perspective on why some patients have to wait for four hours in the ED to see someone. Dr. Dornan explains that the aging population has created an increased demand on acute care beds
Doctors are seeing smaller payment increases at the same time that the number of doctors per Canadian is rising. In 2016-2017, total gross clinical payments to physicians increased 2.8% to $26.4 billion. It’s the lowest single-year increase since the
Heart & Stroke’s annual report finds patients hospitalized for one vascular condition are at significant risk of experiencing additional vascular conditions and shows that the health system isn’t set up to deal with their complex needs. Among the 1.5
The B.C. government says 72 deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgeries will be performed in the province in the current fiscal year on Parkinson's patients who no longer respond to medication. That's double the number of procedures that took place three
The University of Waterloo study found that 23% of Canadians are facing high anxiety while 15% are experiencing high depression. Before the pandemic these levels were at around 4% or 5%. Researchers say it's especially concerning that even with high
in 2021, Statistics Canada indicates that overall, 5% of Canadians reported having vaped in the past 30 days. N.B. had the highest rate of vaping (9%), followed by P.E.I. (8%) and Que. (6%). Also 3% of youth (aged 15 to 19) and 17% of young adults
The research found that pregnant people who got COVID-19 were more likely to have worse outcomes than infected people who weren't pregnant. Researchers found that pregnant people were 2.65 times more likely to require hospitalization and 5.46 times
Because COVID-19 symptoms can be hard to distinguish from pneumonia and other bacterial infections, many patients were prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics. The study found the common hospital practice may be acting as a catalyst to increase global
The American Psychological Association suggests the 5% increase in loneliness during the pandemic wasn't as great as expected but it cautions that any increase can still have long-term health implications and needs to be followed more closely. It
Students' mental health deteriorated in the last two years as isolation and the global health crisis took a toll on people's ability to cope. The three-year campus peer support pilot will be led by the CMHA and see 100 students hired across the five