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As the country’s health ministers prepare to meet in Vancouver, Ontario is already saying decisions on changing the health care funding formula should be left for another day. British Columbia Health Minister Terry Lake says B.C. and the Atlantic provinces…

During the election campaign, several U of T experts, including Dr. Samir Sinha and Dr. Danielle Martin, pushed strongly for a national pharmacare program. “I absolutely hope we will be able to work towards a national pharmacare plan at some…

Julia Oosterman, a spokesperson for the Toronto Central CCAC (Community Care Access Centre) noted that in the past five years, the Toronto Central CCAC has faced a 73 per cent increase in the number of medically complex clients who are…

Canada’s palliative care system is in desperate need of attention, leaving patients in the lurch and wasting money, according to a new report examining end-of-life care. Using a patchwork of data from across the country, the Canadian Cancer Society has…

The study, “A Three Year Study of High Cost Users of Health Care” was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It reviewed anonymized patient records for nearly 15 million Ontarians between 2009 and 2011 – making it the largest such…

The University Hill Corp., a Syracuse non-profit organization represents hospitals and academic institutions, is hoping to target Ontarians who need everything from from knee replacement surgeries to colonoscopies. “We recognize that some of the procedures which are most in demand…

The R&D Blueprint is a global strategy and preparedness plan to ensure that targeted R&D can strengthen the emergency response by bringing medical technologies to patients during epidemics. The Blueprint aims to reduce the time between the declaration of an…

Facing the biggest overhaul in a generation, Ontario’s “fragmented” $50-billion health-care system will finally bring family doctors under closer control while blowing up its broken home-care network. Queen’s Park is unveiling long-awaited proposals Thursday to streamline the way elderly and…

WHO today launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years. “Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs” identifies the key drivers of progress in health under…

Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott says when she sits down with her provincial counterparts her focus will be less on how much more money Ottawa needs to give to the provinces and more about reforms to the health-care system. Philpott…