The Alberta government recently announced that it’s going to “de-privatize” community-based lab testing in Calgary and the southern regions of the province. The move is eyebrow-raising for a couple of reasons. First, the United Conservative Party is ideologically enthusiastic about privatization, and this is a significant climb down. The about-face ...
An OMA document prepared by Economics, Research and Analytics at the OMA. Last updated April 6, 2015. Presented to Governing Council in 2015. It was sourced from the OMA website's directory of published documents. There are 9 slides. I have summarized two of them below: Main findings: 1. Net real ...
HANCE CLARKE AND IMRAN ABDOOL SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED AUGUST 28, 2023 An emergency sign is seen outside a hospital in Montreal, on July 10.CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/THE CANADIAN PRESS Dr. Hance Clarke is the director of Pain Services and the medical director of the Pain Research Unit at the Toronto General ...
source: Globe & Mail Aug 29 2023 - A very important article. The economics of healthcare is the key to fixing the problem. Raymond Rupert. _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Hance Clarke is the director of Pain Services and the medical director of the Pain Research Unit at the Toronto General Hospital. Imran ...
Robert Nelson is a very successful venture capitalist who does not want to die of cancer. His company is the leading funder of Altos labs that is attempting to reprogramme cells to reverse aging. Robert Nelsen’s latest and largest investment—several hundred million dollars, he says—is in a company attempting something ...
Research at the Federal University in Minas Gerais state has developed what they hope will be Latin America’s first vaccine to treat cocaine addiction, Calixcoca. Calixcoca works by inducing the production of antibodies that latch on to cocaine in the bloodstream, creating molecules that are too big to pass through ...
Sticker shock isn’t slowing the fervor even as analysis found the drugs can cost five times as much—or more—in the US than they do elsewhere in the world. A one-month supply of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic has a list price of $936 in the US, but just $169 in Japan. Wegovy costs $1,349 ...
About 10,000 doctors and nurses living near the border with the US are licensed to work in the US. Each day, they cross the border to work in the US. Live in Canada and work in the US. Why is this happening? These doctors and nurses have a better deal. ...
Health care organizations have increasingly adopted the principles of high-reliability organizations to improve their safety and quality. These principles must be built into the culture of the organization as well as into the systems and frameworks used to improve processes and evaluate outcomes in a learning health care system. On ...
A global shortage of healthcare workers is setting off a worldwide battle for talent, as rich countries raid other nations’ medical systems for staff to care for their aging populations. The competition has helped countries such as the U.S. and Australia replace some nurses who quit in record numbers during the ...