Ontario Boosts Healthcare Funding Ontario announces a significant investment in healthcare, dedicating over $3 billion to enhance home care, hospital resources, and primary care over three years. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy emphasized the importance of a robust healthcare system. The investment aims to increase wages for healthcare workers and improve patient care at home.
Dr. Garni Tatikian, a Toronto-based locum physician, is reconsidering her career as a family doctor due to what she sees as inadequate salaries. Despite covering for other physicians for four years, the financial outlook and historical lack of inflation-adjusted pay raises have led her to question the viability of continuing in the field. This sentiment is echoed by others in Canadian healthcare.
Researchers at Western University have developed a promising HIV cure strategy using HIV-virus-like-particles (HLP) to boost immune responses without causing infection. This affordable, injectable treatment, a decade in the making with international collaboration, shows significant potential in eliminating HIV-1.
Dr. Garth Graham, head of YouTube's global health division, likens combating health misinformation on social media to gardening, requiring constant maintenance. Misinformation is widespread, with studies showing up to 51% of vaccine-related posts, 28.8% for COVID-19, and 60% for pandemics containing inaccuracies.
Experts warn viewers of the April 8 solar eclipse, visible in eastern Canada, parts of the US, and Mexico, to use ISO-certified eclipse glasses or viewers. These devices, significantly darker than regular sunglasses, block nearly all light, protecting eyes during the event. NASA and eye-care professionals stress the importance of using approved solar filters to prevent eye damage.
In 2013, the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease, a move that started changing perceptions from blaming individuals for their obesity to understanding it as a chronic condition requiring long-term management. Despite controversy and resistance, this shift highlights the complexity of obesity, involving genetics and health risks.
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