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How Does Canada’s Health System Actually Work?

August 7, 2009

OTTAWA ; Canadians can be of two minds about their public health care system. Tommy Douglas, a former premier of ...

What happened to Catastrophic and Rare Disease Drug Coverage?

August 6, 2009

The increased importance of pharmaceutical drugs in Canadian health care was not foreseen during the drafting of the ...

Keeping Older Drivers Driving

August 6, 2009

Candrive, a Canadian research program aimed at improving the safety and quality of life of older drivers is now into ...

PET Scan Update

August 6, 2009

The Ontario government just announced that PET scans will be publicly funded for certain cancer and cardiac patients ...

Using Retirement Homes as Way Stations between Hospitals and Long-Term Care Homes: What You Need to Know

August 6, 2009

Hospitals across Ontario lack available acute care beds as a portion of these beds are occupied by patients who no ...

A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare

August 3, 2009

Universal health insurance is on the American policy agenda for the fifth time since World War II. In the 1960s, the ...

Gay and Old is Tough

July 31, 2009

A doctor expressed disgust after discovering his elderly patient was gay. A gay man carried his ailing partner into the ...

Getting Old is Tough

July 31, 2009

A doctor expressed disgust after discovering his elderly patient was gay. A gay man carried his ailing partner into the ...

Pink Planet Goes All The Way!

July 31, 2009

Revolutionary gay and lesbian travel show gets picked up by OUTTV! Carp Pink and ZOOMER Media would like to ...

Fashion Icon Wayne Clark Featured in ZOOMER Magazine.

July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009 Legendary Canadian Fashion Icon Wayne Clark discusses the struggles of aging in the youth-obsessed gay ...