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Medically Assisted Dying: Worries Grow in Canada
Worries Grow About Medically Assisted Dying in Canada The Lancet Sept 9 2022
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COVID-19 highlights Canada’s long-term care home crisis (The Lancet, Jan 15 2021)
When Canada’s national health data agency reported in June, 2020, that Canada had the worst record among wealthy nations for COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care facilities for older people, many …
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The Lancet: Canada and COVID – learning from SARS?
In an exclusive interview with The Lancet, David Naylor, one of Canada’s leading experts on pandemic control, says Canada’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is vastly benefiting from the country’s …
Medicine costs drive seniors to food banks
Over the past decade, the share of food bank users over age 65 increased from 3% to 7% in Toronto. Last year alone, there was a 27% jump in seniors …
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Awaiting federal solutions to antimicrobial resistance threats
15 Years after Ottawa abandoned its antimicrobial resistance plan, action awaits
“Big Pharma vs Everyone”: Winner — 2017 Sanofi Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism
Big Pharma Versus Everyone RoB Magazine November 2016
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Up to 50% of antibiotics mis-prescribed
CMAJ Jan 17 2017 Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem