Canadian Health Care

• COVID-19 health-care funding levels might not be maintained post pandemic: CIHI

  Provinces may run into challenges funding health-care systems post-COVID-19 after the pandemic has forced recorded spending, a new report indicates.

  Health

  Nov 4, 2021
  
• Ottawa should end health transfers, give provinces room to tax: researchers

  The report suggests that ending the health and social transfers — while giving provinces more space to raise tax revenue of their own — could end the "tug of war."

  Canada

  May 20, 2021
  
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• Nova Scotia celebrates research milestone for patients with Fabry disease

  Nova Scotia is home to some of the world's first patients to receive an experimental gene therapy for treating Fabry disease and the newly-published study results are promising.

  Health

  Feb 28, 2021
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• Nova Scotia Liberal MPs decry NDP ‘political stunt’ after voting down bill on national pharmacare

  The only Liberal member of Parliament from the Maritimes to support C-213 was Wayne Long, representing Saint John-Rothesay in New Brunswick.

  Canada

  Feb 25, 2021
• Grateful, optimistic: MP Darren Fisher looks forward after ‘dumpster fire’ 2020

  Dartmouth-Cole Harbour MP Darren Fisher catches up with Global News after a tumultuous year of responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

  Features

  Dec 29, 2020
• People are dying of illnesses other than COVID-19 because they wait too long to seek help

  Doctors are warning that patients with non-coronavirus illness, such as heart attacks, are risking death by waiting too long to seek medical help.

  Apr 16, 2020
• Canada could move to more active surveillance of COVID-19. Here’s what that means.

  Provinces are discussing how to expand testing for the novel coronavirus, officials say.

  Health

  Feb 28, 2020
• Canadian doctors behind the curve on using technology to improve services: CIHI report

  Canadian family doctors are better than average when it comes to being accessible to their patients but slower to adopt the use of technology to communicate, a recent study says.

  Health

  Jan 30, 2020
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• ‘Whether it’s 300 or 700, it’s not enough’: Canadian health care slow to adopt physician assistants

  Physician assistants could help ease some of the strain on Canada’s understaffed health-care system, but experts say the country is dragging its feet on bringing them into the fold.

  Health

  Dec 9, 2019
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• ‘It’s like a random lottery’: Questions remain about pharmacare promises

  An estimated one in five New Brunswickers is uninsured or underinsured, according to the provincial Department of Health.

  Politics

  Oct 3, 2019