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I attended a presentation to the community on physician-assisted death. The panelists included Sudbury lawyer Michael Hennessy and Health Sciences North bioethicist Mary Huska. It also included Dr.

I have just returned from Halifax, where I attended a four-day course designed to prepare anesthesiologists who wish to volunteer for service in developing countries.

Medicine now has the opportunity to focus much of its research on the chronic diseases of aging: cancer, heart disease and dementia, to give some examples.

In 1966, the government of Canada declared that all Canadians should be able to obtain health services of high quality according to their need, irrespective of their ability to pay.

Mrs. B is 96. She lives in her own home, but she has been losing strength in the past six months. She was admitted to Health Science North recently with a bowel obstruction.

We live on a planet covered by organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye. Humanity has its own unique collection. Each of us is composed of about 30 trillion human cells and more than 100 trillion bacterial and fungal cells. They grow quickly.

Picture the current conditions in Liberia. A sick patient is being readied for transfer to an isolation centre. Nurses are dressed in their full Ebola combat gear: body suit, apron, head-cover, facemask, goggles, face-shield, boots and rubber gloves.

Epidemics have cursed mankind for thousands of years. Ebola is new. It only appeared in 1976, in a village situated near the Ebola River in the Congo, hence its name.

Premier Wynne promised during the election campaign she would increase the hourly wage for personal support workers, improve access to primary care physicians, expand home care and improve access to dental services for children in low-income families

Ontario’s economic growth has been disappointing for a number of years. Its cumulative debt is $270 billion and growing, greater than all the other provinces combined. There is agreement on these facts.