Wynne cries poor yet takes $1M junkets
Her government has unilaterally cut doctor’s service fees by 7% this year. She has repeatedly nickeled and dimed seniors trying to access physiotherapy or cataract surgery, among other things, to keep...
View ArticleSpectrum Health Introduces a Virtual Health Service (Spectrum Health System)
(Source: Spectrum Health System) Spectrum Health Introduces a Virtual Health Service 11/06/2015 11/06/2015 MedNow Offers Convenience and Improved Access to Care Spectrum Health announced today the...
View ArticleCity's first generic drug store hit by procedural delays
Thanks to procedural delays, the City’s first generic drug store, to be set up by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, is yet to be inaugurated. Sources at the KC General Hospital, where the...
View ArticleSHS Students Without NHIS Cards Sacked
Some Senior High Schools in the Upper East Region are turning away qualified students because they don’t have National Health Insurance cards. Some of the schools include Saint John’s Integrated, Zemsi...
View ArticleNaturally Splendid (V.NSP) rubber hits the road, up 78% in two weeks
I told you so. I told you so over and over, but did you believe me? Naturally Splendid (TSXV:NSP, Forum), Canada’s hemp omega/pet health/protein drink developer provider, had been largely quiet for...
View ArticleMalta and South Korea sign MOU for long-term cooperation on works and...
The Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure of Malta and the Ministry for Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of...
View ArticleMore Ontario docs to give sex reassignment referrals
Ontario will expand the number of health professionals who can refer transgender people for sex reassignment surgery. The current requirement that those seeking such referrals go through the Centre for...
View ArticleInmates living it up in federal prison, guards say
There should be no surprise that killer Luka Magnotta was living the good life behind bars almost immediately after being convicted of the horrific butchering of Chinese student Jun Lin. Disgust and...
View ArticleFacebook's Internet for all, a tough sell in India
Facebook's rocky experience shows that good intentions and technological savvy are not enough If Mark Zuckerberg hopes to deliver on his vision of bringing the Internet to the four billion people who...
View ArticleNew cell therapy saves baby girl with leukaemia
A baby girl who was close to dying from cancer has been rescued by a cell therapy envisioned as a “one size fits all” treatment that had never been tested in people, doctors reported on Thursday. The...
View ArticleLytro is bringing its “shoot now, focus later” technology to virtual reality...
Lytro—the company best known for its cameras that let people shoot now and focus later—is using its image-capturing technology to produce what it’s building up as the most refined virtual-reality...
View ArticleGene Editing Treats Leukemia
In June a group of London clinicians obtained special permission to treat Layla Richards, a one-year-old infant diagnosed with leukemia, with an experimental gene editing therapy that had not yet seen...
View ArticleHow vital is annual mammogram
Last week, the American Cancer Society anno-unced changes to its influential guidelines for breast cancer screening. The society no longer recommends that wo-men at average risk between the ages of 40...
View ArticleMicrobes Play Role in Anti-Tumor Response
The presence of certain types of gut microbes in mice can boost the anti-tumor effects of cancer immunotherapy, according to two studies from independent research teams published today (November 5) in...
View ArticleGreen Button: The promise of personalizing medical practice guidelines in...
(Source: Stanford School of Medicine) As Shah put it: 'What if you press the Green Button and nothing happens?' If you can't access enough records of similar patients to begin with, you're out of luck....
View ArticleOHIP putting boy through hoops for needed surgery
Little Alesandro Ciampa loves sports. At just seven years of age, his greatest dream is to play soccer — the way his friends do at school. Sadly, though, Alesandro was born with spastic cerebral palsy....
View ArticleAetna, OHC Form Oncology Medical Home in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky...
(Source: Aetna Inc) Dateline City: - The Patient-Focused Model Supports High-Value Care - CINCINNATI-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Cancer patients in greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky will have access to...
View ArticleMajority of Americans Don’t Use Digital Technology to Access their Doctors...
(Source: Bipartisan Policy Center) Washington, D.C. - Today, Americans manage much of their lives through digital and electronic tools, except when it comes to health care. According to a new Nielsen...
View ArticleDraft outcome document for Valletta Summit on migration leaked
The draft outcome to the upcoming Valletta Summit on Migration has been leaked, and should it be adopted as is today, then an action plan would be built around five policy domains. One of the draft...
View ArticleNPP Agrees To Cleaning Of Register
Almost crestfallen by the inability of their representatives at the just ended two-day forum on the voter register to convince the Electoral Commission to compile a new register for the 2016 elections,...
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