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The proposed cuts will drastically reduce the quality of care Albertans receive, leading to more frequent visits to doctors or emergency rooms due to poorly managed conditions. This is not just a reduction in pharmacy service funding, it’s a dismantling of a critical component of patient care.

Melatonin is generally used for eastward travel only, since westward travel is easier to adapt to naturally, making melatonin unnecessary unless travel spans 12 or more time zones.

Proponents of advance requests for MAiD have long argued that patients suffering from neurocognitive illnesses should be able to consent while they’re still competent to do so, an ability they are likely to lose as their disease progresses.

The Medical Post is celebrating its 60th year: Every week test your knowledge—this week a quiz about a late 1990s crisis.

Much of the decision-making matrix people unconsciously use in their lives is based on the sum of their life experiences and conditioning. And when we are scared or stressed, it’s either love or fear that motivates us to survive.

Laws initially intended to compassionately help Canadians avoid suffering a painful death have metastasized into policies facilitating suicides of other Canadians seeking death to escape a painful life.

Dr. Davidicus Wong thinks again about the basic principles of neuroscience that every doctor should understand.

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