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Month: January 2017

Overcrowding in Ontario’s hospitals is a serious – and growing – problem

hospital error / By / January 31, 2022

After a recent visit to a hospital in Sudbury, France Gelinas, Health Critic for the provincial NDP, filed a Freedom of Information request to better understand a critical issue to Ontario’s healthcare system: hospital overcrowding. “I knew it was bad,” Gelinas told the CBC. “I knew our hospitals were overcrowded, but I never thought it …

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Should dementia patients be prescribed antipsychotic medications?

medication error / By / January 31, 2022

As the Canadian and global populations grow older, healthcare workers are eagerly seeking solutions to prevalent age-related health problems. Chief among those is dementia, a disease which affects millions of people around the world, and which today remains incurable. Scientists do not fully understand what causes dementia, which makes it a frustrating and complicated ailment …

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