Tag Archives: CANADA

Shortage of guide dogs a crisis, prompting search for ‘made in Canada’ solution

Breadcrumb Trail Links Health and Wellness ‘We believe every Canadian who needs a guide dog should have that opportunity — at no cost,’ says the president of the CNIB Guide Dogs program Author of the article: Zeenya Shah Beth Deer poses with her guide dog Patronus trained by Guide Dogs for the Blind Photo by… Read More »

Canada didn’t need to lose 22,000 to COVID. Here’s what could have saved them

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health Canada This month marks a full year since Canada saw its first major lockdowns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what we should have done differently Author of the article: Tristin Hopper Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021  •  March 10, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  213 Comments… Read More »

Will Canada approve a first-dose-first strategy now that AstraZeneca has been approved?

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health Canada The U.K.’s controversial strategy to space vaccine doses up to three months apart could see everyone offered a first dose by end of July — months sooner than Canada Author of the article: Sharon Kirkey Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021  •  2 days ago  •  4 minute read  •  67… Read More »

How Canada got universal health care and what the U.S. could learn – PBS NewsHour

Naresh Tinani loves his job as a perfusionist at a hospital in Saskatchewan’s capital. To him, monitoring patient blood levels, heart beat and body temperature during cardiac surgeries and intensive care is a “privilege” — “the ultimate interaction between human physiology and the mechanics of engineering.” But Tinani has also been on the other side… Read More »

More data, supply needed before making promising COVID-19 drug Remdesivir a routine part of treatment in Canada, say experts

The hopeful buzz around the drug Remdesivir and its potential as a COVID-19 treatment was so deafening Wednesday, it triggered an unexpected surge in the financial markets. New evidence “has proven … that a drug can block this virus,” enthused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert. But Canadian experts were not… Read More »

Canada sours on its drug system just as Trump looks to import from it

Just as the Trump administration is planning to let states import prescription drugs from Canada, the United States’s northern neighbors have grown impatient with their own high drug prices. Canada is enmeshed in a drug pricing war. Canadians are paying among the highest prices in the world for drugs, prompting lawmakers to consider a major… Read More »