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All countries are searching for answers on how to reverse the rising tide of adult and childhood obesity.

Curing and caring: how can I best illustrate the difference? I think with examples. Let me start with “curing.” I received the following memo recently: “Health Sciences North is commencing a Trans Aortic Valve Initiative (TAVI).

Hassan Rasouli (Mr. R) is a 60-year-old gentleman who was admitted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto in October 2010 for removal of a benign brain tumour.

Let me begin with a story. Betty is 60, and was admitted to hospital Dec. 3, 2011. She was on drugs that suppressed her immune system to treat her neurological disease. As a consequence, she developed multiple infections.

Good health comes from a variety of factors. Surprisingly, most are not related to the health care system.

Throughout the ages, death was familiar, simple and public. Death was a common event, occurring in every age group, an accepted part of life.

The provincial and federal health ministers met recently in Halifax to discuss how to reform and pay for health care after the current accord expires in 2014. The Ontario government awaits Don Drummond’s recommendations for revamping public services.

With the passage of the Medical Care Act 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.

The Ontario Hospital Association’s trending data as of September 2010 shows there has been no overall improvement in ALC rates for Ontario hospitals over the past three years, despite significant efforts from the government, LHINs, hospitals, CCACs a

How do we meet the ALC needs of our rapidly growing elderly population – in other words, our parents, our loved ones, friends and neighbours? How do we meet the expectations of the community — for timely care in the emergency department, short wait t