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Ontario is providing a grant to help the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) plan for upgrades and improvements, ensuring that children and their families continue to have access to high quality health care. This grant will support the Toronto-based paediatric…

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…