ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 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. - 2/9/2019
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 - 2/6/2019
StatCan says number of cannabis users relatively unchanged since legalization
The national statistics offices says legalizing cannabis doesn't seem to have much changed how many people use the drug. - 2/6/2019
Cape Breton loses one of few remaining family physician administrators
Dr. Carol Critchley has resigned as family medicine site lead at Cape Breton Regional Hospital; meanwhile healthcare on the island continues to deteriorate - 2/6/2019
Researchers uncover new links between heart disease, stroke and cognitive impairment
People with heart failure were 2.6 times more likely to experience vascular cognitive impairment - 2/6/2019
Report identifies negligence, abuse at New Brunswick mental health facility
33% of the time, staffing levels were considered so low they were deemed 'dangerous' - 2/6/2019
Vancouver ER giving OD patients medication to help with withdrawal
Patients who OD on opioids get a three-day supply of Suboxone and easy-to-understand instructions from a nurse before they're discharged