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Personalized, preventive medicine is on its way

WEBPersonalized, preventive medicine is on its way. We’ll use machine learning to predict illness before it starts, reducing pressure on the health-care system. (This illustration …

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How to fix our broken health care system

WEBIt costs the province $6,600 a month for a shelter bed and between $10,000 and $20,000 per month for a patient to stay overnight in a hospital. By comparison, providing …

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Best communities in Canada for great health care 2019

WEBIn fact, Toronto took the top spot in our ranking of the best communities to retir e, largely thanks to its excellent health care services. Maclean’s Best Communities in Canada …

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I’m a Canadian ER nurse who took a job in the U.S. so my family …

WEBLast year, Nova Scotia’s health authority spent $16 million on travel nurses in just nine months. Since 2020, Alberta Health Services has spent $10 million on travel nurses, …

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Canada's Best Universities by Reputation: Rankings 2024

WEBMaclean's surveyed university faculty and senior administrators, as well as a variety of business people across the country, asking for their views on quality and innovation at …

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The Canadian doctor who helped invent Ozempic

WEBIn 1984, 63 years after Banting and Best isolated insulin, Daniel Drucker, another U of T alumnus, co-discovered glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, a gut hormone that lowers …

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I'm a family doctor in Halifax. Pay-for-service clinics will burden the

WEBMarch 30, 2023. “A renewed interest in pay-for-service clinics creates a huge risk,” says Dr. Leisha Hawker, who has worked in Nova Scotia’s public health-care sector for over a …

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How racism impacts your health

WEBOpinion: Health impacts related to racism interrupt narratives of the 'disadvantaged,' the 'poor,' the 'lazy' and the 'needy'

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13 charts to watch on health, families and population in 2022

WEB13 charts to watch on health, families and population in 2022. Chart Week 2022: Global vaccine trends, quantifying how the jabs saved lives, the next child care crunch, and …

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The Year Ahead: Health in 2024

WEBEnough finger pointing: in 2024, provinces will tap into the Trudeau government’s massive $196-billion health accord, designed to bolster a system hamstrung by staffing …

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Wellness checks are broken

WEBWellness checks are broken. Sahil Gupta: As a society, we need to move beyond the Band-Aid response of wellness checks. The first step is a humane approach with mental …

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When health meets geography, difficult truths come to the fore

WEBHealth geography expanded with the World Health Organization’s 1984 definition of health, which came to include the environment. Courses now look at how space, place and …

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Canada’s best charities 2020: Top 100

WEBPercentage of revenue spent on administration and fundraising. Salary of highest-paid employee compared to similar-sized charities. Calgary Food Bank. 100.0%. 100%. …

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When nursing burned me out, TikTok became a lifeline

WEBIn 2020, I graduated from nursing school in Quebec. Just a couple of weeks later, I found myself working in a hospital in the middle of a global pandemic.

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Canada’s best university medicine programs: 2020 rankings

WEBThe 20 top-ranking Canadian schools for medicine programs

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They Lost their Kids to Fortnite

WEBFortnite. A group of Canadian parents say their kids are so addicted to the video game Fortnite that they’ve stopped eating, sleeping and showering. Now these parents want to …

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Lucy Maud Montgomery’s agonizing drug addiction

WEBAlanna Mitchell. Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942) author of Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Islands. (Library and Archives Canada/C-011299/CP) February 12, 2020. …

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What happens when your son tells you he’s really a girl

WEBIt’s been four years since Anna and her son, now 11, first met Ghosh, and the only times her son outwardly expresses himself as female is when he is on vacation or asleep. “He …

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Russell Williams’s wife knew he was a predator: victim

WEBBut never before has anyone connected to the case—police, prosecutors, or other victims—publicly accused Williams’s wife of knowing he was a serial sexual predator. …

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