Advanced clinical trials in Canada, which were consistent between 2015 and 2019, decreased by 26 per cent in 2020.
Health Care
July 28, 2021
11:39AM
New drugs are approved later in Canada than in the United States and European Union.
July 20, 2021
10:38AM
Regardless of their potential impact on patient health, drug approval times in Canada were longer than in other countries.
June 28, 2021
10:50AM
The province had the capacity to perform more than 1.3 million CT exams but only 419,000 were actually performed.
June 9, 2021
9:24AM
Hospitals currently view patients as costs that eat into the budget.
June 3, 2021
9:29AM
Drugs were approved in the U.S. 469 days earlier (on average) than in Canada.
May 5, 2021
10:07AM
The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity.
March 31, 2021
9:36AM
If Moderna had been allowed to sell its vaccines earlier, many Canadian death and illnesses may have been prevented.
February 2, 2021
9:15AM
The provincial government contracted several private surgical clinics to help clear the backlog.
December 11, 2020
11:09AM
Premier Ford wants the federal government to cover 35 per cent of health-care costs, up from 22 per cent.
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