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Improving seniors’ care would better the health of entire system
Matt Borsellino | October 20, 2009
There are many reasons for concern about the short- and long-term future of Canada’s national health-care system. There are, moreover, growing indications that if the system does indeed fail, it will be the increasing proportion of the country’s elderly population that takes it down.

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YOUR TURN: The odd discord surrounding health-care worker vaccinations
Michael Gordon | October 06, 2009

The anticipated H1N1 influenza outbreak that may reach pandemic levels has raised many issues: clinical effectiveness, relevant risk of different populations, production capacity and effective testing of new vaccines.

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LETTERS: Diabetics’ high rate of depression no surprise
Dr. Julie Righter | October 06, 2009

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LETTERS: Don’t forget CMA meeting motion against asbestos
Gedeon Forman | October 06, 2009

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POLITICS: Patients need to be more accountable in health system
Matt Borsellino | October 06, 2009

Dr. Aura Hanna (PhD) certainly knows a lot about health sector accountability. Maybe she knew a lot about it before, but now, having produced the Ontario Medical Association’s (OMA) new policy position on the subject, she obviously knows plenty about it now.

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