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Drugs and medical devices are an important part of Canada’s health care system, helping Canadians treat and prevent a variety of conditions. However, all drugs and devices involve risks, including the potential for serious side effects leading to emergency room…

China is celebrating a major health achievement: the country has not recorded a single indigenous case of malaria since August 2016. This is a notable feat in a place where the disease has historically taken a huge toll. In the…

The cornerstone philosophy behind the federal government’s long-awaited strategy for confronting dementia is a simple one: prevent Canadians from developing the condition in the first place. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, who unveiled the strategy Monday at an event in…

Sean Hill believes the mental health crisis can be improved by harnessing big data. The Toronto researcher says harvesting all the available information in the field — whether it’s collected by clinicians or trapped inside patients’ genes and neurons —…

Canada is the only country in the world with universal health care that does not provide universal coverage for prescription drugs. Instead, we rely on more than 100 government-run drug insurance programs designed to serve people in vulnerable groups, and…

Canada should have a national pharmacare program that is universal, single payer and public, says an advisory council tasked with studying the possibility. The Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare made this statement in its final report, released…

In the deep rural areas of Rwanda, a new technology is saving lives. In the past two decades, Rwanda has created a high-quality national blood service, tripling its blood donation rates between 2000 and 2018. The use of innovative technology,…

Researchers in Ontario are attempting to figure out how to deliver life-saving medical supplies in record times by answering a simple question with profound implications: Can an ambulance or a drone reach the scene of a medical emergency faster? To…

Drones could help save time, cut costs and simplify how organ transplants are delivered, according to the surgeon who oversaw the first transplant shipment by drone. Dr. Joseph Scalea, director of the organ drone laboratory at the University of Maryland…

In the first instalment of a Global News series exploring the Canadian health-care system, experts are calling attention to a framework they believe is decades out of date. Full article at: Global News