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How one woman is trying to change native people’s health care experience
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Dec. 25, 2011
Dr. Smylie is a Toronto-based family physician and health researcher of Métis heritage who is looking for new ways of connecting aboriginal individuals with the health-care system to help reduce the high rates of chronic disease… She believes a big obstacle is that the health-care system wasn’t designed specifically with aboriginals in mind. Native Canadians have a distinct culture in which elders pass on vital information about parenting; midwives, rather than hospital-based doctors, help birth children; and age-old traditions play a major role.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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CAMH gets $30-million donation for new research institute
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Nov. 28, 2011
Cutting-edge work investigating new ways to treat mental illness and provide better care for patients will soon be one step closer to reality because of a massive $30-million donation to create a new research institute at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The donation, made by the daughters of the late Audrey Campbell and their families, is the largest private donation ever made to a mental health and addiction research hospital in Canada.
Tags: mental Health, philanthropy
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How to save health care from the pale-green maze
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Nov. 19, 2010
The health community was hesitant to abandon the traditional hospital model in favour of a focus on prevention and promoting health by designing buildings around the needs of patients… make(ing) patient care a priority by putting everything from doctor’s offices to physiotherapists and speech therapy under one roof and combining them with fitness centres, libraries, financial and legal advisers and meeting spaces for community groups… Those who have chronic illnesses or need continuous care can be visited at home by health-care workers who will help manage their illness.
Tags: budget, Health, standard of living
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Plight of MS patients exposes flaws in Canada’s approach to medical research
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Jun. 28, 2010
The country needs a more centralized hub to decide how research dollars are allocated, and patients should have a voice in those decisions… It would help ensure that decisions are based on reason and science, not desperation. But it could also foster important breakthroughs on a timely basis and allow patients to participate in trials to see if they benefit from the new treatment.
Tags: disabilities, Health
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Thousands of children facing unacceptable wait times for surgery
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Jun. 17, 2010
In 2009, more than 17,000 children were not treated within time frames deemed acceptable by physicians, an annual report released by the Wait Time Alliance on Thursday shows. The report exposes new depths to Canada’s chronic deficiencies in managing wait times for common health procedures… The biggest problems occurred in dentistry, plastic surgery and ophthalmology… “If you exceed [the benchmarks], that potentially has a lifelong impact.”
Tags: Health
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