Telling kids the truth about a parent’s illness can help ease worry, grief: expertsBefore delivering the bad news to his children, Matt Brown had to think hard about how to tell them he had a newly diagnosed disease that was progressing quickly, had no cure and would ultimately kill him. CMA find new CEO in current CHEO leaderAlex Munter will be ending his 13-year stint as president and CEO of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario to take on a new role with the CMA. POLL: What is the biggest challenge Canada faces? See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll. Is mental illness contagious? What? Of course not! This has been scientifically proven in the last century . . . hasn’t it? Looking for the Fountain of Youth? Try the gym and weight-resistance training Physiologist Dr. Marcas Bamman says age-related decline in strength comes from putting too few demands on the body rather than too many. Sour stats: 46% of Manitoba docs are considering leaving the province, retiring or reducing their hours While some docs are simply due for retirement, the majority of flighty physicians say (fixable) systemic and institutional problems are to blame. Lindsay Dixon launches AI-powered search engine for pharmacists The search engine, Medlume, summarizes and cites key studies in topic areas, and it only returns results from PubMed. Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the U.K. general election The five-day strike by junior doctors shines a spotlight on the troubles besetting the chronically underfunded National Health Service. Hurry up! Report highlights long wait times between Health Canada approval of new drugs and when they appear in provincial drug coverage Canadian patients wait a very long time, much longer than in other developed countries, before being able to access new treatments, notes the Conference Board of Canada. Ringing an alarm: Predicting osteoarthritis before the onset of pain, damage to joints The presence of certain proteins could act as an alarm signal announcing the disease before it reaches the acute phase. First Previous 107 108 109 110 111 Next Last
