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As he tries to build a movement for universal health care in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders’s much-anticipated trip to Toronto this weekend is meant to be a fact-finding mission on Canada’s health-care system. The most popular politician in…

Ontario is providing funding for over 2,000 additional beds and spaces to improve patient access to the care they need, whether in hospital, at home or in the community. Press release includes the numbers of beds and spaces this funding…

For many Canadians, our universal health care system is a source of national pride. But the head of a government-funded health care improvement organization says Canada’s system barely ranks above that of the U.S. and lags far behind systems in…

Canadian researchers have developed a predictive model for detecting lung cancer in early stages when the disease has a greater potential to be curable. The Pan Can Model, developed by a team of health researchers across the country, uses a…

For all the talk about patient wait times in the health-care system, at least one group of medical professionals can also be prone to long delays. When an ambulance arrives at one of the major hospitals in the Halifax area,…

The pressure is growing on the Wynne government to tackle chronic overcrowding in the province’s hospitals after repeated revelations about patients being cared for in hallways and lounge areas. On Thursday, for the fourth straight day, the NDP will make…

With this expansion, home care patients and those who care for them will benefit from approximately: 1.5 million additional hours of personal support services, which includes help with bathing, dressing and exercising. 390,000 additional hours of nursing care, which includes…

Establishing a universal program for prescription medications would amount to about $4.2 billion in savings annually in Canada, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report. The report, requested by the House of Commons standing committee on health, was released…

The Parliamentary Budget Officer is estimating that a new national pharmacare program would cost the federal government a little over $19 billion per year, a price-tag that could grow to $22.6 billion a year by 2021. The federal fiscal watchdog,…

Critical next steps to accelerate the response to the global public health threat posed by Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been agreed by representatives from the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Agriculture of affected and at risk countries,…