Health Care

Prescription

Canada’s Plan to Optimize Prescription Drug Use


Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) has introduced a comprehensive five-year plan, A Prescription for Action: A Pan-Canadian Strategy for Advancing the Appropriate Use of Prescription Medications, aimed at enhancing the safe and effective use of prescription...

Generic

Choosing Generic Over Brand Name Medications


When you receive a prescription from your doctor, you may expect a specific brand-name drug, only to find a different name on the medication bottle at the pharmacy. Your pharmacist might explain that your insurance...

Multiple Sclerosis

Breakthrough Treatment Offers Hope for Progressive Multiple Sclerosis


A groundbreaking study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by Dr. Jiwon Oh, a neurologist and scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, part of Unity Health Toronto, reveals that a new drug,...

Doctors

Canada’s Barriers for Global Doctors During Health Crisis


Canada faces a critical shortage of family physicians, with approximately six million Canadians lacking access to one. Despite this, internationally trained doctors—known as international medical graduates (IMGs)—are underutilized due to systemic barriers in the licensing...

Canada

Canada Needs to Prioritize Health Care


In advance of the Throne Speech, there is always intense speculation on priority issues for government. On May 12, the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) CEO Alex Munter and President Dr. Joss Reimer held a virtual...