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A new study has determined that the average cost of health care for Canadians with diabetes is $16,000 over eight years, compared to $6,000 for those without the disease. The analysis published in the journal Diabetic Medicine shows that caring…
Dr. Hanan Balkhi of the Health Ministry’s department for infectious diseases said that of the 46 people infected at King Abdulaziz Medical City in the capital, Riyadh, 15 were medical staff. Another 20 people showing symptoms are currently being tested…
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…
Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) is an annual one-day research conference held at the University of Toronto. Hosted by students and supported by the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, the event gives undergraduate students the opportunity to share their…
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…
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