Medical travel brokers bring optimism to a growing population facing escalating medical problems. They can help overcome long waiting periods that compromise your health by organizing treatments overseas, or they can provide “remedies” for whatever befalls you despite the absence of remedies available locally. According to experts, much more work remains to be accomplished before …
The rapid advancement in medical technology is now changing the Canadian healthcare system. What real contenders, on the other hand, are lurking around the corner? CADTH is actively scanning the landscape for the most eligible candidates. CADTH is an international organization that discovers, evaluates, and summarizes information on medications, medical devices, testing, and procedures. It …
The Ontario Medical Association is concerned about the outbreak of COVID and the rise in hospital admissions, especially in emergency departments. At the same time, as restrictions loosen, more people are gathering and traveling, particularly to and from red spots. The association suggests that regions be banned from returning to less stringent sections of the …
According to an exclusive recent study carried out on behalf of the Ontario Medical Association, nearly 6% of Ontarians online are distributing lies and misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, with the overwhelming majority of them being older people. Ontarians aged 55-64 are the most active online across all COVID hoax topics, with men and women …
For good purposes, the public has viewed senior Canadians as weak and fragile during the Coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has disproportionately affected older people, who make up the vast majority of those dealing with serious illness or death. Fear of COVID-19 contagion tends to affect seniors even more than the majority of Canadians, causing them …
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a wave of transformation in the Canadian medical environment and the professional lives of healthcare workers. Rapid implementation of improved personal protective equipment, obligatory symptom monitoring for staff and patients, and expanded work-from-home practices are only a few examples. An After Action Review (AAR) is a mechanism used by the …
It was 1949, and cardiologists Drs. Wilfred Bigelow and John Callaghan were researching whether dramatically cooling a dog’s body would enable them to execute open-heart surgery in the basement of Toronto’s Banting Institute. Unfortunately, the dog’s heart spontaneously stopped during the operation. Dr. Bigelow, desperate to resuscitate the animal, poked the dog’s left ventricle with …
On Thursday, IntelGenx, a drug delivery development company that produces and sells pharmaceutical films such as VersaFilm and transdermal VevaDerm, reported its Q4 full year 2020 financials, reporting fourth-quarter sales of $790,000 with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $754,000. After IntelGenx Technologies’ recent fourth-quarter report, Douglas Loe, an analyst at Leede Jones Gable, is optimistic …
StageZero, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, offers cancer and COVID-19 diagnostic tests and is promoting its Aristotle diagnostic tool as a multi-cancer blood screening. The company disclosed a purchase agreement to acquire Health Clinics Ltd (HCL), a telehealth company dealing with systemic inflammation and metabolic disorders. Following that, StageZero announced that Aristotle would be launched via …
Justin Trudeau’s liberal administration is now displaying every intention of keeping its pledge to transform Canada’s cannabis environment. Aside from that, much remains uncertain, including the size of the Canadian marijuana market, the number of people it will hire, and the amount of tax revenue the state will receive. Previously in early 2016, CIBC World …
