Healthcare

When Canada’s premiers doubled down earlier this year on their demand for a $28 billion unconditional increase in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), they missed an opportunity to finally achieve the kind of healthcare reform our underperforming system has been told it needs over and over again.

Until now, its use was limited to a hospital setting, and the drug was rationed for only the most high-risk cases.

While the U.S. survey of more than 13,000 doctors found a lower rate of suicidal thoughts among physicians in 2021 compared to the previous year, it also underlined a deep-rooted need to constantly maintain an image of strength and infallibility.

The program will be jointly funded by the province and the SMA.

An undercover patient helped the FBI catch Dr. Andrew Berkowitz, who was also ordered to pay close to US$6 million in fines and restitution.

Rare, but it happens. Researchers used a database of SCD cases that were referred to the center for cardiac pathology at St George’s University of London between 1994 and 2020.

Study finds difference in humoral immunogenicity favouring Moderna vaccine is most evident in patients with the highest immunosuppression.

At roughly 9%, researchers say the readmission rate is similar to that seen for other ailments, but socio-economic factors and sex seem to play a bigger role in predicting which patients are most likely to suffer a downturn when sent home.