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Establishing a universal program for prescription medications would amount to about $4.2 billion in savings annually in Canada, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report. The report, requested by the House of Commons standing committee on health, was released…

The Parliamentary Budget Officer is estimating that a new national pharmacare program would cost the federal government a little over $19 billion per year, a price-tag that could grow to $22.6 billion a year by 2021. The federal fiscal watchdog,…

Critical next steps to accelerate the response to the global public health threat posed by Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been agreed by representatives from the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Agriculture of affected and at risk countries,…

Overcrowded hospital wards are prompting Ontario’s Ministry of Health to consider urgently transforming a mothballed hospital site in Toronto into a temporary source of beds, CBC News has learned. Multiple sources from different parts of the health-care system say the…

Associate Professor Andrea Tricco will lead a Canada-wide alliance that answers health-care research questions submitted by policy makers, doctors and other clinicians, but also patients. “Any Canadian will be able to ask questions related to health care,” said Dr. Tricco,…

In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact — and to finally customize ways to…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is issuing a stark warning: millions of people could die if foreign aid budgets are cut. As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, the Gates Foundation — the world’s largest private philanthropic…

Canadian Mental Health Association 2nd Annual Mental Health for All Conference “It Takes a Nation” September 18, 2017 Toronto, Ontario Today, I would like to focus on three themes: 1. Discuss the state of mental health in Canada, both nationally…

Heart disease remains the leading cause of premature death in Canada and globally, according to a new study that looked at the state of the world’s health. The Global Burden of Disease study, published Thursday in The Lancet, also found that…

Young people between 16 and 24 years old have more challenges than other age groups in getting mental health and addiction services in Canada, a new study comparing mental health care across five provinces has found. “Wherever we looked, they…