Healthcare

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.
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.

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.
Position statement on medical cannabis use in rheumatic disease

Canadian Rheumatology Association provides guidance to ensure empathetic care and harm reduction
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?
Women less likely to receive geriatric care for emergency hip surgery
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
Alberta creates working group to make recommendations to ban conversion therapy

The Alberta government has created a working group to determine the most effective way to ban conversion therapy.
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
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.

Managing young women at high risk of heart disease

NB psychiatric hospital patient dies days after report finding inadequate care

Shining a light on osteoporosis

Position statement on medical cannabis use in rheumatic disease

The challenge of the super agency

Women less likely to receive geriatric care for emergency hip surgery

Tax breaks could soften the blow of a national pharmacare plan

Alberta creates working group to make recommendations to ban conversion therapy

SCPP moves closer to ban on exempted codeine products

B.C. wants federal action after 1,500 deaths from illicit overdoses last year