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B.C. court to hear Charter challenge over religious exemptions to assisted dying law | CBC News

A trial set to begin Monday in British Columbia's Supreme Court questions whether publicly funded faith-based hospitals should be allowed to prevent patients from receiving medical assistance in...

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Why do we say accessibility, when we mean anti-ableism?

Guest Voice: Finding balance as a CF patient and healthcare worker

Finding balance is important to guest writer Allison Given, who is both a healthcare worker and a person living with cystic fibrosis.

Ban diversity quotas in federal research funding, parliamentary committee says

Committee says DEI policies are weakening Canadian research — yet also calls for maintaining DEI initiatives in other areas

Recruiting more doctors, nurses, allied health professionals

Thousands of international doctors, nurses have joined B.C.’s public-health system

Reducing health risks from wildfire smoke

People can take steps to protect themselves from wildfire smoke, poor air quality

B.C.’s future doctors start classes at SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine

The first new medical school in B.C. in nearly 60 years opens its doors

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

100 Years of Academic Medicine: A Conversation with the Journal’s Editors-in-Chief

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, past editors-in-chief Addeane Caelleigh, Steven Kanter, MD, and David Sklar, MD, and current editor-in-chief Laura Roberts, MD, MA, celebrate Acade…

Loophole in Patent Law Brings ‘Miracle Drug’ to Patients Who Can’t Afford It

A generic version of a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug, manufactured in Bangladesh for a fraction of the American price, may give some families around the world an unlikely lifeline.

Study examines how many YouTubers offering nutrition advice are actually qualified to give it | CBC...

Registered dietitian Leah Cahill says people come to her all the time asking about nutrition information they've seen on social media. She is one of the authors of a new study looking at the quality...

AI Is Taking Over Hospitals

This is health care’s Uber moment.

An estimated 20,000 Alberta kids face waiting years to get therapy for disabilities | CBC News

An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy...

No MAID for mental illness: Parliamentary committee says

Some committee members say the committee’s work was biased and want the Supreme Court to give its opinion; others want more MAID oversight