February 7, 2023 · 7:00 AM
From DailyMail:
Last year, more than 10,000 people in Canada – surprisingly that’s over three percent of all deaths there – ended their lives via euthanasia, an increase of a third in the previous year. And it’s likely to keep rising: next year, Canada is set to allow people to die exclusively for mental health reasons.
Only last week, a jaw-dropping story emerged of how, five years into an infuriating battle to obtain a stairlift for her home, Canadian army veteran and Paralympian Christine Gauthier was offered an extraordinary alternative.
A Canadian official told…
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Do private, for-profit clinics save taxpayers money and reduce wait times? The data says no
There’s a lot of talk these days about an increased role for private health-care clinics in Canada, sparked in part by Premier Doug Ford’s plans to significantly increase the number of Ontario surgeries done in for-profit clinics.
Despite promises from Ford and others that it will streamline services and solve the issue of long wait times, health-care professionals that CBC News interviewed say there are nuances and that such happy outcomes are not borne out by the data.
In fact, data from BC and from other countries suggests private, for-profit surgery clinics will likely increase the true cost to taxpayers…
US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries
March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM
From NPR:
The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.
But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:
Life expectancy in the…
Nova Scotia Health, IWK to drop mask requirements in some facility areas – Halifax
Nova Scotia’s two health authorities plan to drop COVID-19 masking requirements in some areas of their facilities this week, though masks will still be required in high-risk spaces.
Nova Scotia Health and the IWK Health Center are changing their guidelines beginning Monday.
Nova Scotia Health spokesperson Jennifer Lewandowski said in a statement that this was an “evaluated response to where we are as an organization and what’s happening in the community from a COVID-19 perspective.”
“While COVID-19 continues to circulate, COVID-19 activity has continued to decline with fewer hospitals and outbreaks and fewer health-care staff off work due to COVID-19,”…
Read Metropolitan Police statement in full as presenter named by wife
As the wife of Huw Edwards revealed on Wednesday evening that he was the BBC presenter at the center of allegations of over payment for sexually explicit images, two police forces have determined that no criminal offense was committed.
Neither force is taking any further action with regards to the allegations, with the BBC confirming that it will resume its “fact-finding investigations” to ensure “due process and a thorough assessment of the facts, whilst continuing to be mindful of our duty of care to all involved.”
Known for presenting the BBC’s News At Ten, Mr Edwards has been a familiar…
Out-of-body experiences reveal brain areas tied to our sense of self : Shots
Scientists say they’ve found a special part of the brain that, when stimulated, can cause out-of-body experiences.
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Scientists say they’ve found a special part of the brain that, when stimulated, can cause out-of-body experiences.
Photo illustration: Heath Korvola/Getty Images
Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms.
“He came to my clinic and said, ‘My sense of self is changing,'” says Parvizi, a professor of neurology at Stanford University.
The man told Parvizi that he felt “like…
Health minister in discussions with Providence Health over MAID policy
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Providence Health’s policy says it doesn’t allow MAID in its facilities, “given the incompatibility of Catholic teaching with actions intended to terminate human life”
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Sam O’Neill, who died days before her 35th birthday, was in hospital with her dog, Jack, and a friend’s dog, Bella. jpg
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BC’s health minister is pushing a Catholic health organization to change a policy that bars medically assisted dying in its facilities.
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