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More than 5,800 youth suicides across Canada signals mental health 'crisis' | The Star

More than 5,800 youth suicides across Canada signals mental health 'crisis' | The Star

Toronto Star — Kids in Canada are dying by suicide at alarming rates. Why? An investigation covering 10 provinces, 2 territories and 13 years finds over 5800 Canadian children and youth have died of suicide.
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OPINION: Ontario's dated sex-ed plan is a lesson in homophobia

OPINION: Ontario's dated sex-ed plan is a lesson in homophobia

The Globe and Mail — Doug Ford continued to discriminate against LGBTQ students last week with his threat to punish teachers who don't stick to the 1998-era sex-ed curriculum, which fails to mention sexting, same-sex couples and consent.
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OPINION: Canadians deserve access to essential care

OPINION: Canadians deserve access to essential care

The Globe and Mail — Opinion: Patchwork air ambulance system may not cover you - even if you're Canadian. My latest for the Globe and Mail.
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Is Canada prepared for a chemical weapon attack like the one in the U.K.? - Macleans.ca

Is Canada prepared for a chemical weapon attack like the one in the U.K.? - Macleans.ca

Maclean's — After an ex-Russian spy was poisoned in the UK, Canadians are asking: Are we ready for nerve gas attacks? We investigate for Macleans.
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Rising drug fatalities in jail: Lack of treatment boosting inmate deaths in Ontario | CBC News

Rising drug fatalities in jail: Lack of treatment boosting inmate deaths in Ontario | CBC News

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — Ontario's prisons are denying prisoners access to treatment for addictions despite a rising death toll for those in jail. CBC investigates "a human rights issue."
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OPINION: Outdated medical gear is putting airplane passengers at risk

OPINION: Outdated medical gear is putting airplane passengers at risk

Maclean's — Opinion - Regulators need to listen to doctors, not airlines, and regulate modern emergency gear on airliners.
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An ER Doc Explains How Not To End Up on Life Support

An ER Doc Explains How Not To End Up on Life Support

Vice — As two bodies lay in hospital beds attached to court-ordered ventilators, lawyers speak out to encourage millennials to start thinking - and talking - about end of life decisions.
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OPINION: Science must be the guiding factor when diagnosing brain death

OPINION: Science must be the guiding factor when diagnosing brain death

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — Make no mistake: what's happening here is that two hospitals are providing inappropriate machine ventilation to people who have tragically – yet irreversibly – lost all brain function and died. It is now up to the courts to reaffirm the science of brain death.
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Pneumonic plague in Madagascar could 'explode' without intervention: Red Cross

Pneumonic plague in Madagascar could 'explode' without intervention: Red Cross

The Globe and Mail — The unprecedented outbreak of a highly contagious form of plague in Madagascar's capital of Tananarive could "explode" if local and international efforts to contain the epidemic fall short, a Canadian assessment team deployed by the Red Cross says. The epidemic has made its way into the congested metropolis of just over two million people.
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One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family - and doctors don'...

One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family - and doctors don'...

Ottawa Citizen — Toronto - When Heather Talbot saw a police cruiser park outside her home, she braced herself for terrible news. After explaining her 22-year-old son Jonathan was involved in a car crash, police officers rushed Talbot to the intensive care unit at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, where doctors told her he was brain dead.
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Opinion: Quebec hospitals need advanced technologies, not threats

Opinion: Quebec hospitals need advanced technologies, not threats

Montreal Gazette — After injecting $100 million into Quebec's appalling emergency health system, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette last month issued an ultimatum to hospital executives: fix emergency department crowding or be fired. He seems to think a threat will get people motivated to solve a problem never before solved. He's wrong.
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OPINION: The government is letting our future physicians down

OPINION: The government is letting our future physicians down

Toronto Star — This past Saturday, the front page of the Toronto Star revealed the tragic story of Dr. Robert Chu, who struggled with Canada's broken medical education system before taking his own life. Robert's story is not an anomaly; it is emblematic of a deeper problem that threatens the future of Canada's health care system by ignoring - or worse, abusing - doctors-in-training, and it's only getting worse.
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Demand for youth mental health services is exploding. How universities and business are scramblin...

Demand for youth mental health services is exploding. How universities and business are scramblin...

Toronto Star — Demand for youth mental health care is exploding, and businesses, universities and governments are struggling to keep up with the needs young people seeking help.
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Porter among Canadian airlines lacking life-saving defibrillators on flights

Porter among Canadian airlines lacking life-saving defibrillators on flights

The Globe and Mail — Short-haul flights flying out of Toronto's Billy Bishop airport do not carry defibrillators as Canadian safety regulations for the life-saving equipment lag behind American regulations. While most air carriers, including WestJet, Air Transat and Air Canada, have voluntarily carried automated external defibrillators (AED) for a decade, Porter has opted out and has no plans to install the device.
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'Be calm': How to deliver a baby coming quickly any time, anyplace

'Be calm': How to deliver a baby coming quickly any time, anyplace

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — Despite plans women have for giving birth at home or in the hospital, babies sometimes have other ideas. Here's what bystanders and parents-to-be can do when there's not enough time to get to the hospital or for the midwife to come.
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Why this man had his colonoscopy broadcast live on the internet

Why this man had his colonoscopy broadcast live on the internet

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — It's not every day you get asked to be the star of an internet video, but when Dan Logan was approached by his gastroenterologist to have his next colonoscopy broadcast live on Facebook, the 64-year-old jumped at the opportunity.
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MDs under pressure: U.S. Navy SEAL training adapted to help Canadian doctors fight stress

MDs under pressure: U.S. Navy SEAL training adapted to help Canadian doctors fight stress

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — When Sean Wilson needed to make his first life-or-death decision as a doctor, it wasn't his medical school training he called upon. It was his time spent in Canada's infantry that helped him. Originally from northern Ontario, Wilson had just moved his family to Montreal to start work as a resident family doctor, a junior physician learning the ins and outs of a specific medical discipline.
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New device keeps blood flowing when heart is too weak to pump

New device keeps blood flowing when heart is too weak to pump

EMS Magazine — The Impella medical device supports left ventricular function when someone is waiting for heart transplant.
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Foreign-trained doctors look to Canada in light of Trump ban

Foreign-trained doctors look to Canada in light of Trump ban

STAT News — Dr. Hassan Majeed is a Pakistani psychiatrist in Connecticut. He’s not immediately affected by President Trump’s temporary travel ban, but still worries his country will soon be added to the list. So he’s begun the process of getting a medical license in Ontario. Canada stands ready to welcome him and many others.
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Should sneezing doctors stay home? The 'big problem' of doctors who work while infectious

Should sneezing doctors stay home? The 'big problem' of doctors who work while infectious

National Post — As Canadian hospitals reach peak capacity during cold and flu season, infection control experts have their eyes on a group of people known to cause hospital outbreaks: doctors. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Paediatrics in 2015, 95 per cent of doctors and advanced-practice clinicians like nurse practitioners knew that if they worked while infectious, patients might catch whatever bug they carried.
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One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family - and doctors don'...

One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family - and doctors don'...

National Post — Toronto - When Heather Talbot saw a police cruiser park outside her home, she braced herself for terrible news. After explaining her 22-year-old son Jonathan was involved in a car crash, police officers rushed Talbot to the intensive care unit at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, where doctors told her he was brain dead.
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New 3-D printed technology will help train doctors to fix cleft palate

New 3-D printed technology will help train doctors to fix cleft palate

STAT News — One of the world's most common surgeries in children has been taught for decades using a Styrofoam cup. Cleft lip and palate repair is a delicate procedure, and the outcome is sometimes hard to predict. One wrong move inside the tiny mouth of a 1-year-old could mean a child with speech defects, problems eating, or lifelong problems breathing.
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Software helps save lives by alerting doctors to crisis before a 'Code Blue' is called

Software helps save lives by alerting doctors to crisis before a 'Code Blue' is called

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — A team at Hamilton General Hospital has created a computer software that scans vital signs for deterioration, alerting doctors that a patient is getting sicker - before their heart stops.
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Carfentanil: 5 Things You Need to Know

Carfentanil: 5 Things You Need to Know

EMS World — Most emergency doctors had never heard of "carfentanil" before it showed up in Ohio in July. That's because it's not a human medicine-it's an elephant tranquilizer used by veterinarians. It is 10,000 times more potent than morphine, and a grain of it-20 micrograms-can kill a human.
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