Canada Health Act breaches are being ignored, pro-medicare groups charge

Viewpoint: Telemedicine and the National Information Infrastructure: Are the Realities of Health Care Being Ignored?

Health care is shifting from a focus on hospital-based acute care toward prevention, promotion of wellness, and maintenance of function in community and home-based facilities. Telemedicine can facilitate this shifted focus, but the bulk of the current projects emphasize academic medical center consultations to rural hospitals. Home-based projects encounter barriers of cost and inadequate infras...

Change the Canada Health Act? Why?

Detecting Pro-p-groups That Are Not Absolute Galois Groups

Let p be a prime. It is a fundamental problem to classify the absolute Galois groups GF of fields F containing a primitive pth root of unity ξp. In this paper we present several constraints on such GF , using restrictions on the cohomology of index p normal subgroups from [LMS]. In section 1 we classify all maximal p-elementary abelian-by-order p quotients of these GF . In the case p > 2, each ...

Prescribing medical cannabis in Canada: Are we being too cautious?

There has been much recent discussion and debate surrounding cannabis in Canada, including the prescribing of medical cannabis for therapeutic purposes. Certain commentators - including the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) - have denounced the prescribing of cannabis for medical purposes due to a perceived lack of evidence related to the drug's efficacy, harms, and mechanism of action. In thi...

Not even the Canada Health Act is sacred, vows Romanow.