by CMAJ News | Dec 23, 2016 | Archive, Health News Recaps, Lauren Vogel
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | Dec. 23, 2016 Health funding talks between the federal government and provinces ended with no new agreement or promise to meet again. The federal government proposed to increase health funding to provinces by 3.5% annually plus $11 billion over...
by CMAJ News | Dec 21, 2016 | Archive, Latest
US calls for more restrictions on e-cigarettes for youth Jay Rankin | CMAJ | Dec. 21, 2016 About one in six US high school students say they’ve used an e-cigarette in the past year. E-cigarette use is “a major health concern” among youth says the United States surgeon...
by CMAJ News | Dec 20, 2016 | Archive, Barbara Sibbald, Latest
Impasse over federal health transfers A federal proposal to increase health payments to the provinces by 3.5% annually was refused by the provincial governments Barbara Sibbald| CMAJ | Dec. 20, 2016 Ottawa and the provinces failed to seal a new 10-year deal on federal...
by CMAJ News | Dec 19, 2016 | Archive, Latest, Roger Collier
Pharmacare researchers win Bruce Squires Award Roger Collier | CMAJ | Dec. 19, 2016 The authors of the article “Estimated cost of universal public coverage of prescription drugs in Canada” have won CMAJ’s Bruce Squires Award, presented annually for the research paper...
by CMAJ News | Dec 16, 2016 | Archive, Health News Recaps, Lauren Vogel
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | Dec. 16, 2016 The federal government introduced a bill to create a new national drug strategy that would reinstate harm reduction as a core pillar of Canada’s drug policy. If passed, the bill would repeal complicated conditions for opening...
