While federal health priorities focus on areas such as pharmaceutical use, data infrastructure and connected care, the central priority – patients’ experiences and needs – remains neglected.
AI technology threatens to disenfranchise the labour force, further concentrate power and wealth and even destabilize democracy. But it's not all bad news. CHARTWatch shows how AI could be used to save lives rather than destroy them.
There is a new momentum to rebuild Canada’s ailing health-care system. But we can’t fix what we don’t know. We must build better health-funding accountability measures.
Solutions to the mental health and homelessness crises are not easy. It will take years to improve it. But if we want to call ourselves a civilized compassionate country, we have to do it.
PSWs understand their work to be physically and emotionally challenging. But it doesn’t have to be dangerous. Health-care employers can and must intervene.
Clinical exposure to palliative care is not afforded the attention it deserves in undergraduate medical curricula. To rob medical learners of such experiences is a travesty.
Pharmacists do not have adequate clinical training to diagnose and prescribe. Ontario’s physicians have ideas to boost family physician numbers. Premier Doug Ford only need ask.
This apology was delivered on Sept. 18, 2024 at a public ceremony in Victoria, BC, on the traditional territory of the ləkʷəŋiʔnəŋ speaking people of Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations.
Sept. 30 marks our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The CMA can only play a role in healing wounds if it openly reflects on what continuously harms Indigenous people so specifically and systemically in this country.
"We, like men, want to have control over our bodies and our own health. I want that for myself, for my daughters and for the female and female-identifying patients I work with."
As health-care providers for people who use drugs in Ontario, we know that the decision to close safe consumption sites goes against current research and knowledge of best clinical practice.
Researchers have developed a new treatment to block inflammation, supercharge the white blood cells’ ability to kill bacteria, and protect against heart and lung failure.
As policymakers in Canada backtrack on decriminalization measures, a news study finds that drug decriminalization in Oregon did not cause an increase in overdose mortality.
None of the policies preventing puberty blockers can be justified, as they are entirely discriminatory. If cisgender-affirming care is on the table, then transgender-affirming care must join it.
Dr. Saskia Sivananthan and Alexandra Whate discuss the formation of the Brainwell Institute and its mission to advocate for people living with dementia, their families and their care partners.
Cyberattacks can be alarming, especially when they affect health-care access. By creating a personal medication record, patients will find themselves empowered with the ownership of their information for the moments they need it most.