Daily Media Digest March 22, 2019

Globalnews.ca
“Lawson Health Research Institute is the research division of London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care in London. It’s researchers …”
TAGS: women’s health, pregnancy, healthy lifestyle

 

UCalgary News
“Research identifying the first case of a person living without the protein needed to bind and transport vitamin D in the bloodstream has been published …”
TAGS: vitamin D, genetics

 

Drug & Alcohol Testing Association of Canada (DATAC) (blog)
“… with the BC Centre on Substance Use and medical director of the addiction program at Providence Health Care, the use of implant provides another …”
TAGS: opioid crisis, addiction, treatment

 

UM Today (press release)
“Two researchers from the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences are celebrating a government investment of over $1.8 million for three …”
TAGS: Nursing, research, federal funding

 

The Globe and Mail
“… even terrifying experiences for people with addictions, said panelist Julie Irving, a psychologist at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.”
TAGS: health, employers

 

Globalnews.ca
“Questions of access and how to improve it are at the heart of health-care debates in Alberta, and such debates are often important in other elections.”
TAGS: Alberta, health care, costs

 

National Post
“A new agency and money for drugs for rare diseases are only very partial steps on the road to a pharmacare plan …”
TAGS: federal budget, Budget 2019, prescription drugs, pharmacare