Funding for more nurse practitioners in long-term care draws praise in northwestern Ontario
CBC
“The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s Nurse Led Outreach Team sees residents of homes in Thunder Bay.”
TAGS: training and instruction, nursing, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Lakehead University
JDRF commissions cost effectiveness study to demonstrate real quality of life value of diabetes technologies
JDRF
“With support from the T1D community, JDRF seeks to increase public and private coverage technologies such as continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and flash glucose monitors (Flash GM).”
TAGS: type 1 diabetes, Canadian research, insulin, JDRF
Discovery of Bacterial Toxin Could Lead to New Antibiotics
GEN News
“The evolution of secretory systems that enable some bacteria to bombard their neighbors with toxins holds an obvious advantage in the bacterial struggle for survival.”
TAGS: pneumonia, RNA, McMaster University, University of Manitoba
The Mental Health Commission of Canada applauds the landmark announcement of a nationwide three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline
Mental Health Commission of Canada
“The MHCC applauds the announcement that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will lead the coordination and delivery of this service.”
TAGS: mental health, substance use, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ongoing uncertainty about prices will deter new drug launches in Canada
The Hill Times
“Further delays in access or complete denials of access to innovative drugs will hurt even more Canadians with unmet or poorly met health needs that could be helped by these medicines.”
TAGS: regulatory guidelines, drug pricing, Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
Preventing heart attack and stroke in patients with kidney disease
VCHRI
“Researchers found that almost 40 per cent of eligible patients 50 years and older were not receiving a protective heart medication.”
TAGS: kidney disease, clinical trial, heart disease and stroke, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute