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The long and growing list of prescription drugs consumed by Canada’s elderly is actually making them more likely to end up in hospital, not less so, suggests a striking new study. Rather than keeping senior citizens healthier, use of multiple…

As the NHS lurches from crisis to crisis, the UK’s approach to health needs radical rethinking to create a healthy and health-creating society. Just as the founding of the NHS in 1948 was a great national movement creating a health…

Health Minister Jane Philpott is hinting that provinces won’t get a promised $3-billion infusion of health care funding in the coming federal budget unless they commit to spend it on home care. The federal minister said Tuesday she wants that…

A new national health accord hinges on a federal agreement to first double the increase to Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories before they buy in to any federal spending strings, Quebec’s health minister declared Thursday. “We will talk…

Canada has reduced premature mortality rates tremendously over the past 50 years, but the country is still in the middle of the pack compared with “peer” countries such as Australia, Germany and Japan, according to a new report. The Canadian…

Ontario colleges and universities are facing a mental health crisis as campus counsellors are overwhelmed by the growing need for services, according to a new study from the provincial association that represents heath service providers on campuses. “I don’t want…

Health Minister Jane Philpott says the Liberal government won’t increase the health-care funding formula imposed by former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government. “That conversation is largely a conversation between finance ministers and at this point I have no reason to…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to re-establish Canada’s role in the world continues Friday when this country hosts the Montreal pledging conference for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. His government has already pledged $785-million for 2017-2019…

City becomes one of the world’s leading producers of biodata The University of Toronto today launched a massive project to sequence the whole genomes of 10,000 people per year – positioning Toronto as a leader in the global race to…

Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical system. Jonathan Penner, a lawyer for the British Columbia…