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- 10/28/2020
Cost for cancer fighting drugs triples in Canada but still no national drug plan
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has released data showing cancer medications account for about 15 per cent of all spending on pharmaceuticals. - 10/27/2020
Ontario ponders end to six month abstinence requirement for liver transplants
Debra Selkirk, whose husband Mark Selkirk died in 2010 before receiving a new liver, challenged the constitutional validity of the policy as a violation of the right to life and equality. Selkirk's estate further argued he was subject to cruel and unusual treatment. - 10/27/2020
'Worst is yet to come': Without government funding diagnostic, surgery backlogs will worsen: CMA
The study estimates that an additional 307,498 procedures would need to be performed over a 12-month period to clear the backlog — a 6.1% increase compared to what would have been expected over the course of a year. - 10/27/2020
Ontario adding over 760 hospital beds
- 10/26/2020
Next Saskatchewan government must invest in rural primary care, mental health
The SMA is asking the next government to make further investments in rural mental health and addictions treatment. This echoes pleas by rural physicians for access to mental health and addictions treatment professionals such as counsellors, psychologists or psychiatrists, and the ability to call on their services on short notice. Lack of access is particularly acute with children’s mental health care. - 10/26/2020
'Escape the politics': B.C. clinic places ads seeking to recruit Alberta doctors
Denning Health Group, which runs seven clinics in several Greater Vancouver cities is running advertisements in Alberta hoping to recruit doctors, urging them to “escape the politics” and “come practice in beautiful B.C."