Breakthrough as dead hearts are transplanted into patients
By Laura Donnelly, Reprinted from The Daily Telegraph 10.26.2014 Three heart transplant patients have been successfully given organs that had stopped beating, a medical breakthrough that could dramatically increase the “donor pool” for such operations. Donor hearts from adults usually come from those who are confirmed as brain-dead but whose hearts are still beating. But […]
Cell transplant allows paralyzed man to walk again, researchers say
Reprinted from CNN online. By CNN Staff updated 3:29 AM EDT, Thu October 23, 2014 A ground-breaking cell transplant has allowed a paralyzed man to walk again, researchers announced Tuesday. Polish man Darek Fidyka, 38, had been left paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 knife attack caused an 8mm gap in his spinal cord. […]
Are family doctors cherry picking patients?
Reprinted from Healthy Debate by Vanessa Milne, Andreas Laupacis & Mike Tierney October 23, 2014 When Anne Lyddiatt’s family doctor retired, she went looking for a new one. The Ingersoll, Ontario resident thought she’d found one for herself, her two daughters, and her granddaughter, and they filled out application forms with their health information. But only […]
Cdn Medical Assoc. outlines complexity of legalizing assisted dying
by Pat Rich 10/16/2014 News Body Expression of the many practical challenges involved in implementing a system of assisted dying that protects the vulnerable while allowing patient autonomy marked the Canadian Medical Association’s verbal submission to the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this week. The Supreme Court met on Oct. 15 to hear the Carter […]
Dr. Yang’s surgical navigation device balances revolution with evolution
RCPSC Dialogue Volumn 14, # 9, 2014 Pairing innovation with practicality is perhaps the defining characteristic of Dr. Yang’s surgical navigation device. Conceived and developed by a Ryerson University research team led by Victor Yang, MD, PhD, P.Eng, FRCSC, a staff neurosurgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ont., and senior scientist at the […]
CMA partners with CARP on Seniors Care
by Pat Rich 8/27/2014 The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has joined with the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) to urge provincial and territorial premiers to take the lead in establishing a seniors care strategy. The CMA and CARP recently wrote to the Council of the Federation to recommend that the future mandate of the Council’s […]
New Research Indicates Dogs Can Detect Breast Cancer
New research suggests that dogs could soon be used to detect breast cancer in an extremely effective and reliable manner. Animals working for Medical Detection Dogs in Buckinghamshire, UK, have already had a 93 percent rate of accuracy when it comes to sniffing 6,000 urine samples to detect prostate cancer. The results of this prostate […]
Poll reveals Canadians support doctors’ moral right to deny treatment
TORONTO | An unscientific poll suggests that Canadians support a doctor’s right to refuse some procedures on the grounds of moral beliefs. fundamental rights of those who seek their medical services The new stats from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario tallied up some 14,000 votes, giving the edge to the doctor’s beliefs. […]
U.S. doctor working with Ebola patients tests positive
The Associated Press Published Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:48PM EDT BOONE, N.C. — A U.S. doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus, an aid organization said Saturday. Samaritan’s Purse issued a news release saying Dr. Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, […]
‘Panic Situation” Top Doctor Critical of Drug Shortage Information Sharing
Canada is facing a major drug shortage problem and authorities must do more to notify patients when supplies of the medications they rely on are dwindling, as well as investigate the causes of the shortages, says the president of the Canadian Medical Association. There are now more than 500 drugs listed on Health Canada’s drug […]
