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- 11/23/2023
Manitoba government to hire more staff to speed up hospital discharge times
The NDP is providing more than $2 million to add more allied health staff and hospital case co-ordinators to help reduce wait times in emergency departments. - 11/23/2023
Here’s what the federal government’s tight fiscal outlook could mean for pharmacare
It is now nearly impossible for a bill to pass before the holiday break, which begins in just three weeks. - 11/23/2023
Dementia and MAiD: A hard needle to thread
The current legal mechanisms surrounding MAiD are extremely complex for dementia sufferers and their loved ones. How might parameters improve in the future? - 11/22/2023
Case report: Out of the frying pan!
With two burn patients in one day, let's remember to remind others to be careful with potentially dangerous, common household materials. - 11/22/2023
Why you should encourage your patients to cook at home
Only 6.4 meals per week are cooked at home worldwide in 2021. - 11/22/2023
WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters
Outside scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced that the recent spike in respiratory illnesses in China signaled the start of a new global outbreak. - 11/21/2023
Judge orders McGill to comply with deal on unmarked grave search at former hospital
Infamous mind-control experiments were held at the psychiatric institute affiliated with the hospital in the 1950s and 1960s. - 11/21/2023
Non-binary Montrealer on hunger strike to get ‘X’ gender marker on Quebec health card
Alexe Frederic Migneault, whose pronouns are they/them, is camping near the board’s office in Quebec City and says they won’t give up their strike until the cards carry an alternative to the traditional ‘M’ or ‘F’ identifiers. - 11/21/2023
Health Canada lifts years long mad cow blood donation ban in Quebec
For two decades, people who lived or travelled in the United Kingdom or France for long periods of time in the 1980s and 1990s have not been allowed to donate blood in case they were exposed. - 11/21/2023
Fear of avian flu descends on B.C. farms as millions of chickens are killed
‘Before anybody goes into the barn, they’re changing their shoes two or three times.’