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Dr. Ophira Ginsburg, a clinician and researcher at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, takes on the new role in Geneva on Oct. 1. Ginsburg said she’s honoured to be chosen for the new post, especially since it’s been her lifelong…

In a damning report issued Thursday morning, Auditor General Carol Bellringer slammed the ministry for mismanaging the project, resulting in a 420 per cent cost overrun for the $115 million project. She notes that when finally delivered by the contractor…

A new study says treating high blood pressure eats up roughly 10 per cent of Canada’s health-care budget, and those costs are growing. The research comes from the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, and was published in the Hypertension…

The president of the Paramedic Association of Canada says no one should have to pay a large fee for an ambulance ride. "Ultimately, we’d like to see paramedic or ambulance services — whether that be land, air or community — be integrated and…

Health Minister Eric Hoskins is defending the Ontario government’s decision to eliminate 50 medical residency positions when hundreds of thousands of people don’t have a family doctor. Ontario has nearly doubled the number of first-year medical residency spots since 2004…

Published on August 10 by the Canadian Medical Association Journal’s website, the new study by Professor Valerie Tarasuk is already making headlines thanks to its many troubling findings. For example, among working-age adults in Ontario, those living with severe food insecurity accounted for more than double the…

People are developing dementia a decade before they were 20 years ago, perhaps because of environmental factors such as pollution and the stepped-up use of insecticides, a wide-ranging international study has found. The study, which compared 21 Western countries between…

Last fall, when Martin Meltzer calculated that 1.4 million people might contract Ebola in West Africa, the world paid attention. This was, he said, a worst-case scenario. But Meltzer is the most famous disease modeler for the nation’s pre-eminent public…

Despite repeated warnings of the imminent closure of health services, and the revision of 2015 plans to focus on meeting the most basic priority health needs for vulnerable populations, funding for health in Iraq remains scarce. Of the US$ 60.9…