Health Care

PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2023. The Editorial Board is composed of professionals in higher education interested in serving as reviewers to offer writers constructive feedback in preparing their articles for publication. Editorial Board members serve both PHE America and Sport Coach America. The six-member board includes Brian Sather, a professor […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Feb. 7, 2023.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press The federal government has agreed to Ontario’s request for a five-year review of the new health care agreement, as Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc praised Premier Doug Ford for helping to broker

In story after story, the crisis in health care and the shortage of health-care workers begs for more money and action. The future of health care in this country does not turn, as premiers would have us believe, on a fight for federal dollars. The emerging drama is a fight for profits in the sector

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tabled a motion in the House of Commons Thursday to force Liberal MPs to condemn Ontario’s experiment with more private delivery of common surgeons. The motion calls on MPs to “express disappointment” in the prime minister for calling Ontario’s plan a form of “innovation.” Trudeau has said he’s open to ideas

According to the latest data available from the Canadian Health Information Institute, New Brunswick spent less than all other provinces on public sector health spending per capita in 2020. However, it spent the third-highest amount on private-sector health spending in the country. Most of the private-sector spending was on medication, according to the data the

As a breast cancer survivor, Carrie Cause takes her health very seriously. It’s why she booked an appointment with her family physician — Dr. Syed Naqvi — to check out some spots on her skin she’s worried about. However, Cause got a text this week saying her appointment was cancelled, and Dr. Naqvi’s clinic has

While it may not be enough for some shareholders, we think it’s good to see the MPH Health Care AG (FRA:93M1) share price up 12% in a single quarter. But that can’t change the reality that over the longer term (five years), the returns have been really quite dismal. In fact, the share price has

Results from an experimental program that provides free prescription drugs to hundreds of people in Ontario suggest covering the cost of medication produces overall savings for the health-care system, according to a new study. The research, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum, tracked a total of 747 patients who reported that the high

A new ‘Abortion is Health Care’ sign has been put up, this time in Yorkton. The location was no mistake either, according to founder and executive director of Abortion is Health Care Signs Inc., Megan Johnston. Johnston and his team chose Yorkton after seeing a bill table by Yorkton – Melville Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall.

Launched on 11/01/2006, the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care ETF (RYH) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the Health Care ETFs category of the market. What Are Smart Beta ETFs? The ETF industry has traditionally been dominated by products based on market capitalization weighted indexes that are designed