ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 2/10/2019
Position statement on medical cannabis use in rheumatic disease
Canadian Rheumatology Association provides guidance to ensure empathetic care and harm reduction - 2/10/2019
The challenge of the super agency
Is there any reason to believe that Ontario's proposed single bureaucratic healthcare body will work any better than it did in the other provinces that have already tried it? - 2/10/2019
Shining a light on osteoporosis
Osteoporosis Canada has teamed up with Canadian fashion designer David Dixon to put osteoporosis in the limelight, especially among a younger demographic. - 2/10/2019
Managing young women at high risk of heart disease
Deaths from heart disease have decreased in recent decades, but these decreases have not occurred in women younger than 50. - 2/10/2019
Tax breaks could soften the blow of a national pharmacare plan
Tax breaks or exemptions for those working in pharmacy, health insurance and pharmaceutical industries could help bolster support for a national pharmacare plan - 2/10/2019
NB psychiatric hospital patient dies days after report finding inadequate care
A patient died unexpectedly at a psychiatric hospital in Campbellton, N.B., this weekend, two days after the province's ombudsman released a report probing complaints of mistreatment at the centre. - 2/9/2019
SCPP moves closer to ban on exempted codeine products
in 2015, more than 600 million low-dose codeine tablets were sold in Canada, the equivalent of 20 tablets per resident - 2/7/2019
B.C. wants federal action after 1,500 deaths from illicit overdoses last year
British Columbia's mental health and addictions minister has joined health officials to call for a safer drug supply to fight the rising overdose death toll while urging the federal government to open a "courageous conversation'' on decriminalization. - 2/7/2019
I have made a decision
I have changed many positions over the years, but this time feels different