Healthcare

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Lab worker strike: Manitoba’s labour board to hear government request on essential status for lab staff
The Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, which represents 350 workers at the privately owned and operated Dynacare, notified the company that members would be striking after contract negotiations stalled.

A roundup of the latest updates to OHIP billing codes

From emergency department premium codes to colorectal screening, here are some of the OHIP billing code changes that the province has made.
Patient advocacy and the pain of a catch coming too late

A clinical pharmacist trying to make a difference when he sees elevated PSA levels—with some situations harder to tackle than others.
Ontario pharmacist suspended after falsifying records, allowing pharmacy to operate without pharmacist present

The OCP called the pharmacist’s actions a ‘serious disregard for his professional responsibilities’ and ordered a four-month suspension.
Canada hosts the pharmacy world

FIP's World Congress in Montreal was a chance for Canadian pharmacists to tell their stories—and learn from others.
Clinical trial patient says ketamine treatment for bipolar depression changed his life

The clinical trial, published in JAMA Psychiatry Wednesday, found the treatment reduced depressive symptoms for more than 35% of participants, who received two 40-minute ketamine infusions over two weeks.
HRT claims jump 228% among Canadian women aged 45 to 54: Manulife

New benefits data points to growing use of hormone therapy to manage menopause symptoms.
Journey into heartland

A poem by Dr. Hector Baillie.
A brush with death made a doctor out of me

Much of Dr. Perle Feldman’s career has been about birth. But it was a run-in with a (now infamous) form of birth control that accidentally set her on the path to becoming a physician.
The third rail of healthcare: The perils of hospital amalgamation

Blast from the past: As doctors in Algoma push to consolidate local ERs, a look back at the unintended consequences of hospital restructuring across Canada.
Not enough of Canada’s two-year-olds are vaccinated against measles to achieve herd immunity

As kids head back to class, ‘this is a great time that we want you to just trigger your memory,’ to get children vaccines Dr. Joss Reimer urges parents.