When a mental health crisis call comes in to 911 in certain parts of Toronto next month, a team typically consisting of two people such as a harm-reduction worker and a nurse, or an Indigenous elder and a de-escalation expert—not police—will be the first to respond.
Once fully up and running the new part of UofT's MD program plans to enroll 30 physicians, 30 physician assistants, 30 nurse practitioners, 40 physical therapists and 300 life sciences undergraduates each year.
According to the World Health Organization the number of people living with diabetes in the world has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014.
A doctor never performed thousands of tests he billed for, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, which said he even claimed drug screening on patients as young as nine and multiple pregnancy tests for a patient who wasn't sexually active.
Your patients are counting on you! At the same time, they don’t know what they don’t know! Talk to them about accidental opioid overdose and offer NARCAN® Nasal Spray with every opioid prescription.
The incoming leader of a group that represents surgeons across British Columbia is questioning the health minister's claims that nearly all surgeries that were cancelled in the first and later waves of the pandemic have been completed.
In the fight against long COVID—only just begun—Canada needs to be at the forefront of researching the causes for these lingering problems and not just hammering away at the symptoms.
