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Are Canada’s clinical trials in need of reform? Experts weigh in.
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often financially desperate test subjects each year to participate in ...
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I’m an emergency department doctor. It’s not all bad.
Much good can go unnoticed. There are successes leading to healthier and longer lives – even in my chaotic specialty.
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Hey Canada, let’s stop the homeopathy lie
As Alberta ponders whether to bring alternative medicine into the provincial health-care system, Timothy Caulfield has a few ...
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‘I would still receive another rather than no vaccine at all’: Chronically ill people left with little choice
Canada will not be providing Novavax for the 2024/25 season, leaving those who would have preferred an alternative to the ...
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Canadians deserve potentially life-saving early warning health-care AI
AI technology doesn't have to be all bad news. CHARTWatch shows how AI could be used to save lives rather than destroy them.
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Where are the patient voices in Canada’s pharmaceutical system?
While federal health priorities focus on areas such as pharmaceutical use, the central priority – patients’ needs – remains neglected.
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A publicly funded virtual care system would benefit us all
Although the COVID-19 pandemic exposed faults in our health-care system, it also created opportunities for innovation, most ...
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From hospitals to encampments – the devolution of mental illness care in Canada
We have created the problem – or at least naive, idealistic do-gooders did. It started in the 1960s when we had little causal understanding of severe mental illness like schizophrenia and other forms ...
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Why we need to track health-care funding – and hire a chief accountability officer
What happens to the billions of dollars the federal government doles out to provinces and territories for health funding? With so many Canadians facing barriers to care, many might wonder where their ...