Recent research has attached a dollar figure to the cost of smoking, obesity and inactivity across Canada.
Nearly six out of 10 Albertans are overweight or obese, finds a Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA) report.
Canada’s medicare system is aging badly, a federal panel has concluded.
A Massachusetts woman has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Walmart of wrongly denying employee benefits for same-sex spouses.
Long waits for surgeries and medical treatments in 2014 cost Canadians $1.2 billion in lost income and productivity, finds a Fraser Institute study.
When you think of epidemic, you may think flu. But think again. On Feb. 9, 2010, the World Health Organization declared diabetes a global epidemic.
A study finds smoking, excess weight, over-consumption of alcohol and physical inactivity are some of the leading causes of chronic disease among Canadian men and the annual economic burden attributable to these four factors is $36.9 billion.
That is what I heard in the doctor’s lounge recently. I don’t agree. I feel the more allied health professionals do for Canadian patients the better it is for everyone.
Technology has grown exponentially, but healthcare systems have not kept pace, said Daniel Kraft, executive director, exponential medicine and factory chair, Medicine Singularity University, at the CPBI Forum in New York City. "In many ways, medicine and healthcare is still being practiced like it's 1846."
Nine out of 10 Canadians believe they are fully covered for all costs associated with hospital stays and psychiatric treatment, finds a Sun Life survey.