Making News
Backgrounder: A primer on the legal challenge between Cambie Surgeries Corporation (led by Dr. Brian Day) and British Columbia — and how it may affect our healthcare system“Medicare,” provides public funding for all medically necessary hospital and physician services.
Why ‘frailty’ mattersAddressing the specific needs of Canada’s frail older adults would improve health outcomes and quality of life ― and reduce health costs
Why academics are losing relevance in society – and how to stop it
A January 2015 Pew Research Center study found an alarming chasm between the views of scientists and the views of the public.
Don’t Touch My Medicare
Trudy Lieberman, Adjunct Associate Professor, the CUNY School of Public Health
Saskatchewan doctors now checking the fiscal health of patients
Pamela Cowan, Regina Leader-Post
Academics need to make sure their evidence mattersAn average paper in a peer-reviewed academic journal is read by no more than 10 people, according to Singapore-based academic, Asit Biswas, and Oxford-researcher, Julian Kirchherr, in their controversial commentary, “Prof, no one is reading you,” which went viral last year.
Too many women around the world still die during pregnancy and childbirthThe government of Canada recently participated in the G7 Health Ministers meeting in Japan to discuss concrete actions to improve global health.
Cessons d’invoquer les taxes sur le tabac pour justifier l’adoption d’une taxe sur les boissons gazeuses
People need less money to live as they get older? If only.Last week the C.D. Howe Institute released a short study just in time for the finance ministers’ meeting — rolling out the tired, old argument that as people age, they do not need as much money to live as when they were younger. If only retirement were so easy.
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