Trudeau announces health-care meeting with premiers
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that he has invited the country's premiers to Ottawa on Feb. 7 to discuss their respective health-care systems.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that he has invited the country's premiers to Ottawa on Feb. 7 to discuss their respective health-care systems.
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A Vancouver Island community is adopting a bylaw banning the consumption of controlled substances on municipal property as B.C. becomes the first province in Canada to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of certain illicit drugs. Campbell River Coun. Ben Lanyon moved the motion in favour of the bylaw during a Jan. 26 council meeting, five days before decriminalization was to take effect, calling it a proactive approach. It now awaits final adoption, having passed third reading. "Campbe
When Biden ends the emergency declaration May 11, access to COVID tests, vaccines and treatment will now depend on insurance coverage.
Canadian women are speaking out about their experience taking domperidone, a drug Health Canada has officially approved for gastrointestinal disorders, but also sometimes prescribed postpartum to help increase the supply of breastmilk. Jennifer Ferger, 38, was prescribed the drug after giving birth to her son in April 2021. She tells Global News she started to have digestion issues and her mental health suffered while on the drug. “I’ve never felt that hopeless in connecting with my baby. I felt like a complete zombie— I wasn’t a human being,” she said. Health Canada has now said it will conduct a safety review of domperidone’s off-label uses based on reports of withdrawal symptoms for those who have reduced their dosage or stopped using the drug. Rosanna Hempel explains.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers are set to meet in less than 48 hours, which could determine the future of the country's health-care system. They are meeting for the first time face-to-face since before the pandemic. Each province and territory has its own story about why the system isn't working, but they all want the same thing: more money from Ottawa. Megan King reports on the expectations and hardlines ahead of the First Ministers meeting on Tuesday.
Pharmaceutical companies that made billions from the pandemic over the past two years selling vaccines and treatments are now up against a steep COVID cliff and investor pressure to spend their windfalls wisely. Western drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Merck & Co are estimated to have brought in about $100 billion in revenue from COVID vaccines and treatments in 2022. Company and analyst estimates suggest those sales could fall by nearly two-thirds this year due to built up product inventories around the world including in the countries that pay the most.
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Alberta hospitals and health-care centres have become increasingly dependent on contract nurses and other workers to stay functional — a trend that critics say must stop before it erodes an already beleaguered public workforce. Contract data publicly posted by Alberta Health Services shows the province's largest health-care provider has increased its spending on staffing agencies more than tenfold during the last seven years. "This is indicative of just how bad things really are," Heather Smith,
The NHS says Sunday February 12 will be the last time people in the age group can have the dose unless they are considered at risk of serious illness.
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Britain’s most prolific blood donor donated 25 times in 2022 and has been giving platelets every two weeks for more than 15 years.