Molnupiravir has just been approved by Britain’s national medicines regulatory agency—the first in the world to do so. Molnupiravir, made by Merck, a big pharma firm, and a Florida-based biotech called Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, is the first oral antiviral medicine available to treat covid-19. The approval marks another milestone in the ...
Rishi Nayyar and Harsh Nayyar Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published October 21, 2021 Harsh Nayyar and Rishi Nayyar are co-founders of Toronto technology startup PocketHealth, a secure platform for sharing medical images and health records. The recent attempts to provide Canadians with a simple, secure and easily shareable ...
BY SIR JOHN BELL Sir John Bell is the Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences in 2006-11 and chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research in 2006-16. He advises the British government on ...
Every organization or large-scale system needs a base of administrative functions to run. As these functions adopt new technologies and innovations, spending typically drops and quality improves. Consider payment processing, which is faster and cheaper than ever, or signing up for a new mortgage, for which you can get preliminary ...
Just to continue our effort to be disruptive. We are advocating for a new and expanded role for the primary care generalist. It is much more difficult to be a primary care generalist than an ENT surgeon exploring sinuses or an eye surgeon replacing lenses. Specialists are said to learn ...
An article in the Financial Post that speaks to the formerly unspeakable. Private healthcare. I am concerned that something is changing in the national consciousness about how our healthcare system is lacking and has failed in many ways. If Canada came 2nd from last in comparing hospital beds and in ...
Michael Wolfson, PhD, is a former assistant chief statistician at Statistics Canada and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa. Canada’s federal election results had barely been counted when the Premiers resumed making their well-worn demands for more federal health care ...
Who owns the healthcare system? We do. Us regular folks own the healthcare system. Who pays for the healthcare system? We do. Us regular folks pay all the bills. So if we own the healthcare system and pay all the bills, then when and how do we get to express ...
Lately, there have been a number of published articles about private healthcare in Canada. For decades, this topic could not be discussed in public. There still can't be a real debate about the topic of private healthcare in Canada. To discuss the private option is not acceptable according to Canadian ...
Let's do a thought experiment. Let's assume that an intelligent and somewhat informed patient is living in Canada in the year 2035. And he/she is looking back at the Canada Health Act of 1984. Monique Begin's moment of glory. The Canada Health Act created the Federal framework for both regulation ...