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A British Columbia doctor’s fight for private health care will be difficult and protracted, and it could pose a serious threat to Canada’s universal healthcare system, according to legal and medical experts. Dr. Brian Day is challenging the province’s ban…

According to a new longevity study by Ottawa researchers, the payback on all that extra effort is huge. Choosing to live a healthy life will result in a longer one by a whopping 17.9 years. The study used a unique…

Researchers at the University of Regina say there’s a such a mishmash of programs aimed at helping first responders cope with stress that it’s tough to know if any are working. They released a paper Tuesday that evaluates the peer…

An Alberta woman is raising alarms about emergency response times in northern British Columbia after her traveling companion suffered a stroke and wasn’t able to receive the care she needed for nearly 24 hours. Tammy Kaleta was traveling with her friend, Patricia…

Saskatchewan residents and interested organizations are invited to provide feedback to the recently-announced advisory panel examining the restructuring of Saskatchewan’s health care system. On August 18, the Minister of Health appointed a three person advisory panel to review the current…

Canada trails the pack when it comes to mental health funding levels among comparable industrially developed nations – but advocates say a promise from the federal government to improve services means the time is ripe to push for change. “Access…

In partnership with the Ghanaian Ministry of Health, the Millennium Villages Project is working to improve and speed-up data collection, which is a key component of WHO’s work to help countries implement Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR). MDSR is…

The ICU is where the sickest patients stay, often for weeks. For each day someone spends in bed, they lose at least one per cent of their muscle strength. Twenty years ago, heavy sedation was common in the unit. But…

Spending on drugs to treat patients suffering from addiction to painkillers soared 60 per cent over a four-year period in Canada, revealing the toll an epidemic of opioid abuse is taking on the health-care system. Public drug programs spent $93-million…

Physicians in Canada were paid a total of $25 billion in 2014–2015, up from $24.1 billion during the previous period, according to a new report. The average payment per physician remained virtually unchanged at $339,000 nationally, the Canadian Institute for…