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Are Canada’s clinical trials in need of reform? Experts weigh in.
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often financially desperate test subjects each year to participate in ...
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I’m an emergency department doctor. It’s not all bad.
Much good can go unnoticed. There are successes leading to healthier and longer lives – even in my chaotic specialty.
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A publicly funded virtual care system would benefit us all
Virtual care and nurse practitioner care are here to stay; let’s publicly fund this care so that it’s accessible to all ...
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Hey Canada, let’s stop the homeopathy lie
Editor’s Note: As Alberta considers whether homeopathy and other alternative medicine should be covered under the provincial health-care system, we thought it was time to republish this 2016 column ...
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‘I would still receive another rather than no vaccine at all’: Chronically ill people left with little choice
Canada will not be providing Novavax for the 2024/25 season, leaving those who would have preferred an alternative to the ...
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Where are the patient voices in Canada’s pharmaceutical system?
Lelainia Lloyd, an advocate for people living with a rare condition called neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), wrote a personal letter to all the ministers of health (federal, provincial ...
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Health Infrastructure
While federal health priorities focus on areas such as pharmaceutical use, data infrastructure and connected care, the central priority – patients’ experiences and needs – remains neglected. There is ...
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Don Willison
Don Willison is associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. He conducts research in the areas of information governance and patient ...