The New Brunswick government has accepted the recommendations contained in a strategy developed by the Council on Aging and will implement 77 action items. An aging secretariat and a roundtable on aging will be created to oversee the implementation
The Ontario government unveiled its framework to manage the sale and use of marijuana, which includes an online ordering service and roughly 150 stand-alone stores. The plan includes opening 80 stand-alone stores by July 1, 2019, and 150 by 2020
Reza Mirza, Resident Physician at McMaster University, and Justin Hall, Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto point to a CIHI study indicating that up to 30% of healthcare interventions are unnecessary as the basis for
The federal government's Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use: A Pan-Canadian Framework for Action was developed with provinces and territories and other key partners in the human and animal health sectors. The framework aims to
Health Canada is proposing to ban non-prescription sales of low-dose codeine, an opioid linked to abuse and dependency. The change would make pain pills, cough syrups and other medications that contain codeine available only with a doctor's
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) doesn't support federal medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation because it doesn't specifically bar mental health patients from eligibility. The association contends that it doesn't want MAiD to
Most of the physicians who responded to the survey said they believed that at least 15% to 30% of medical care isn't needed. Breaking down the types of unnecessary medical care, respondents reported that 22% of prescription medications, 24.9% of
Adequate nurse staffing is integral to pain management and patient satisfaction, according to researchers from the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. The study assessed patient satisfaction and pain management within the context of staffing
This study investigated the opinions of council members of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice (EURACT) on necessary actions to strengthen the position of general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) across Europe in their country
Ting Shih, CEO and founder of ClickMedix, says the biggest recent breakthrough in healthcare is the mobile phone. He says smartphones are affordable so almost anybody in the world can have access, and this has transformed healthcare. Today, two