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Tariffs and cost-of-living have been major concerns during the campaign, but you can’t have a healthy economy without healthy people
The federal election campaign has so far focused on cost of living and the trade war. Health care – an issue that touches the lives of every Canadian – was notably absent from the leaders’ debates, although the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have made a number of promises on that front in recent days, including to add more family doctors.
Last week, The Globe and Mail hosted a webcast panel – Election 2025: Steps to heal Canada’s health care system –to discuss the current landscape, possible solutions and what to look for when casting your vote on April 28.
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Radiopharmaceutical publicly funded in some provinces has fewer side effects than chemotherapy and can increase survival by about half a year
The last type of chemotherapy that David Easton tried in his five-year fight against prostate cancer left him living a life that was really no life at all.
The retired Ontario autoworker slept 20 hours a day. His little time awake was spent hunched on or over the toilet at his home in Ayton, a small community about two hoursnorthwest of Toronto.
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Also in today’s edition: Poilievre pledges to use notwithstanding clause and tariff whiplash endures
Good morning. Plenty has changed in the treatment of obesity since experts last published advice on caring for young people with the chronic disease in 2007. More on that below, along with election campaign updates and Katy Perry in outer space.
U.S. President Donald Trump muses about tariff relief for automakers and begins the process for semiconductor and pharmaceutical leviesFormer hockey player Chris Simon has been posthumously diagnosed with CTE, and the NHL says there’s no proven li
Authors of the clinical advice, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, say that medications and surgery should be offered with nutrition, exercise and psychological support
Doctors caring for young people with obesity should provide nutritionaland exercise advice, but should also consider offering weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery to teenagers, according to the first new Canadian guideline on the treatment of pediatric obesity in nearly 20 years.
The clinical practice guideline, which provides advice to doctors on how to treat children with obesity, was publis
Family calls for change after B.C. nurse dies by suicide after attacks on the job
Rosanne Wallace was 33 years old and worked as a psychiatric nurse at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail. Her family said she always wanted to help people.
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Dr. Kieran Moore said he supports letting unvaccinated children attend school so long as their parents complete paperwork
Twins’ third birthday is challenging assumptions about preemies
The results of the clinical trial show that Semaglutide improved quality of life and increased the distance that participants could walk without the debilitating calf cramping
U.S. patient dies from rabies after organ transplant. Can this happen here?
A Michigan patient died of rabies earlier this year after contracting the virus through an organ transplant, health officials said.
A Michigan patient died of rabies earlier this year after contracting the virus through an organ transplant, health officials said.
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“There is no threat to the general public. Health officials worked together to ensure that people, including health care providers, who were in contact with the Michigan individual were assessed for possible exposure to rabies,” a spokesperson for the Michigan health department told Global News in a Thursday email.
While organ screening is done for common diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C and syphilis, they are not routinely tested for rabies before transplantation, according to the CDC.
Since rabies is extremely rare, standard donor screening prioritizes more common infections and conditions that could impact transplant recipients.
“If rabies is not clinically suspected, laboratory testing for rabies is not routinely performed, as it is difficult for doctors to confirm results in the short window of time they
Latest surveillance report shows the outbreak spreading to new parts of the province
Hundreds of Ontarians contracting the measles after the illness was eliminated in Canada decades ago
[Ottawa, March 18, 2025] Stop TB Canada is pleased to announce an improved process to speed availability of new, life-saving treatment for drug resistant TB (DR-TB) to people in Canada. Working with non-profit drug developer TB Alliance which developed the new treatment, Stop TB Canada has ensured
Health Minister Kamal Khera said the government is expecting an additional 4.5 million Canadians to be eligible and coverage will start as early as June 1.
Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah were the youngest and lightest twin babies to survive a premature birth at exactly 22 weeks
Despite a shortage of physicians, Canada still struggles with the question of whether a doctor licensed in one province should be automatically qualified to practice in others.
While politicians tout the benefits of reducing interprovincial trade barriers to unlock prosperity amid escalating trade tensions, our most precious health-care resources — fully qualified doctors — remain shackled. Physicians face a maze of regulations when attempting to practise beyond their home province. We must break these chains.
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Measles cases are currently higher than all of the last decade combined in Ontario
Alberta looking to save $400M in doctor payments, medical association president says in memo
The Alberta government wants to cut more than $400 million in the fees it pays to doctors, according to a confidential memo obtained by The Canadian Press.
The Feb. 18 memo, sent by Alberta Medical Association head Dr. Shelley Duggan to member physicians, says Alberta's health ministry seeks cuts to more than 800 physician billing codes to save $400 million because of budget pressures.
Those codes lay out how much money is paid for specific procedures, sometimes based on the amount of time that a doctor spends with a patient.
"What has become clear in the last few months is that Alberta Health is looking to address its budget shortfalls through the physician services budget," Duggan writes.
"While we hope Alberta Health will reconsider its current approach, we wanted to advise members that it's highly likely the [issue] will proceed to arbitration."
Duggan says the government move breaks an agreement to jointly review the billing changes because the