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Imagine a health-care system where a patient can consult a doctor as soon as a concerning symptom arises

Imagine a health-care system where a patient can consult a doctor as soon as a concerning symptom arises

  • Toronto Star
Tackling pervasive health inequity and racism requires more from our leaders

Tackling pervasive health inequity and racism requires more from our leaders

  • Times Colonist
  • Wade Grant, Wenecwtsin
Provinces need to come together to make pharmacare a reality for all Canadians

Provinces need to come together to make pharmacare a reality for all Canadians

  • Healthing
  • Doug Roth
'Real target in CEO's assassination was for-profit health care'

'Real target in CEO's assassination was for-profit health care'

  • Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  • Steven Lewis
Navigating Health and Lifestyle Decisions over the Holidays

Navigating Health and Lifestyle Decisions over the Holidays

  • Wine Watch
  • Dan Pazkowski
America’s Public Health Breakdown Is Just Getting Started

America’s Public Health Breakdown Is Just Getting Started

  • The Tyee
  • Crawford Kilian
Finally, the UCP comes up with new pay system to save family doctor practices

Finally, the UCP comes up with new pay system to save family doctor practices

  • Calgary Herald
All I want for Christmas is publicly funded health care

All I want for Christmas is publicly funded health care

  • Hill Times
  • KAREN S. PALMER, BERNARD HO
A biochemist explains how RFK and his lawyer’s claims threaten public health

A biochemist explains how RFK and his lawyer’s claims threaten public health

  • Mark R. O'Brian
It’s more important than ever that health information systems speak to each other better
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It’s more important than ever that health information systems speak to each other better

  • Globe and Mail
  • Andre Picard
What Canadians think about public and private health care

What Canadians think about public and private health care

  • Globe and Mail
It’s more important than ever that health information systems speak to each other better
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It’s more important than ever that health information systems speak to each other better

  • Globe and Mail
  • Andre Picard
What Canadians think about public and private health care

What Canadians think about public and private health care

  • Globe and Mail
Productivity in health care doesn’t mean doing ‘more with less’

Productivity in health care doesn’t mean doing ‘more with less’

  • Kathleen Ross
My oral cancer shows the deep connections between chronic and infectious disease

My oral cancer shows the deep connections between chronic and infectious disease

  • STAT
  • Larry Schlesinger
Rapidly aging population driving ER crisis in Quebec

Rapidly aging population driving ER crisis in Quebec

  • Montreal Gazette
  • Aaron Derfel
B.C. must prioritize timely access to cancer drugs

B.C. must prioritize timely access to cancer drugs

  • New Westminster Record
  • Robert Bick & Barry Stein
I live with 20 other men in a small shared space. This is what treatment is like

I live with 20 other men in a small shared space. This is what treatment is like

  • CBC
  • jordan kawchuk
How would Canada’s health-care system respond in another world war?

How would Canada’s health-care system respond in another world war?

  • Toronto Star
  • Bruce Arthur
The case for gene drives to combat malaria
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The case for gene drives to combat malaria

  • The New York Times
Wellness Goes to Washington
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Wellness Goes to Washington

  • The Atlantic
  • Elaine Godfrey
These wellness clinics could ease Ottawa doctor shortage

These wellness clinics could ease Ottawa doctor shortage

  • Ottawa Citizen
  • Brigitte Pellerin
Excluding industry from pharmacare plans threatens Canada’s drug supply

Excluding industry from pharmacare plans threatens Canada’s drug supply

  • The Hub
  • Bettina Hamelin
Canada's health care system is nothing to brag about

Canada's health care system is nothing to brag about

  • National Observer
  • David Moscrop
Health-care workers are under attack. We must do more to keep them safe

Health-care workers are under attack. We must do more to keep them safe

  • Healthy Debate
  • michael heenan
The Disability Tax Credit is a barrier to the Canada Disability Benefit

The Disability Tax Credit is a barrier to the Canada Disability Benefit

It’s time to cut the red tape for disability support

  • Rabia Khedr & Judith G. Seidman
Why health care is everyone’s business

Why health care is everyone’s business

  • The Logic
Pharmacogenomic testing on the verge of revolutionizing health care

Pharmacogenomic testing on the verge of revolutionizing health care

  • Healthy Debate
  • Sarah Mohd Ali & Khorshid Shakibaiemoqadam
Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic

Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic

  • Lyne Filiatrault, Heather Hanwell, Mark Ungrin & Dorothy Wigmore
Dear Doctors… (Translated from French)

Dear Doctors… (Translated from French)

  • La Presse
  • Stephanie Grammond
Public reaction to insurance CEO’s murder reminds us of what Canada must defend

Public reaction to insurance CEO’s murder reminds us of what Canada must defend

  • Toronto Star
  • John Semley
Mystery disease kills dozens in Congo – what we know so far

Mystery disease kills dozens in Congo – what we know so far

  • Andrew Lee
The role of health care in mitigating the climate crisis
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The role of health care in mitigating the climate crisis

  • Hill Times
  • WENDY LEVINSON
Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics

Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics

  • The Tyee
  • Crawford Kilian
The Risk of Groupthink in Pandemic Planning and Preparedness

The Risk of Groupthink in Pandemic Planning and Preparedness

  • Dr. Merrilee Fullerton
Bridging faith and public health to overcome vaccine hesitancy

Bridging faith and public health to overcome vaccine hesitancy

  • Policy Options
  • Haaris Tiwana, Julia Smith
'Dr. Elaine Ma Case is Proof Ontario is Unfriendly to Physicians'

'Dr. Elaine Ma Case is Proof Ontario is Unfriendly to Physicians'

  • Just An Old Country Doctor
  • Sohail Gandhi
‘Your body, my choice’: American politics and the looming threat to reproductive freedoms in Canada

‘Your body, my choice’: American politics and the looming threat to reproductive freedoms in Canada

  • Healthy Debate
  • Eberechukwu Peace Akadinma Breanna Barker
Are we sleepwalking toward another pandemic?
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Are we sleepwalking toward another pandemic?

  • Globe and Mail
  • Andre Picard
More than a nuisance: It’s time to scrap sick notes – for good

More than a nuisance: It’s time to scrap sick notes – for good

  • Healthy Debate
  • Joss Reimer
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed

Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed

  • Henry Obanya
Bhattacharya To Decide the Fate of Medical Research

Bhattacharya To Decide the Fate of Medical Research

  • McGill
  • Jonathan Jarry

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