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Ontario Anti-Fraud Task Force interim report
By Claims CanadaDecember 13, 2011 - Ontario Anti-Fraud Task Force interim report suggests working groups look into licensing health-care clinics, creating dedicated fraud investigation unit
Mount Sinai's Tai Chi Story
By The Health ProfessionalFall 2011 Issue - The Wasser Pain Management Centre (WPMC), one of the leading interdisciplinary pain clinics in North America, is collaborating with the Rehab and Wellbeing Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital to offer medical Tai Chi classes for individuals with chronic pain.
An MD Seeks Alternatives - A Global Quest
By The Health ProfessionalFall 2011 Issue - Travel has always been a great source of insight and an impetus for progress. More important than the places we see, the people we meet and the experiences we have, the true value of travel is the way all these things help change the way we see ourselves and our home. As an emergency physician who has worked in many settings in our multicultural society, my approach to clinical care was shaped by a life of travel. Among other things, it helped me to really listen to my patients and connect with them in a way that transcends culture and background. Perhaps the most important milestone in my career was a two-year break from medicine that I spent learning about traditional healing while backpacking around the world.
The Dichotomy of Headwinds
By Maria Kelebeev, PublisherFall Issue 2011 - When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford
2010 TEDMED Highlights- Mike Barber
By TEDMED2010 TEDMED Highlights Mike Barber shows how GE is using today's technology to bring doctors into the 21st century and progress modern medicine.
A Quebec Technology to the Rescue of Knees
By The Health ProfessionalSeptember 14, 2011 - Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital's Orthopedic Team innovates and acquires unique cutting-edge technology.
Using science on complementary medicine
By JULIA BELLUZ VIA CANADIAN HEALTHCARE NETWORKJuly 21, 2011 - Dr. Edzard Ernst has spent the better part of the last two decades doing what few physicians have been inclined to do: establishing an evidence base for alternative therapies. In that time, he and his team in the department of complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, England, have turned out more than 1,000 papers on the subject, written some 40 books—including the recent Trick or Treatment?, which Dr. Ernst describes as “a passionate plea for good evidence”—and founded the journal Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies. On the eve of his retirement from his post as the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, he answered questions about his research and the relationship between conventional and alternative medicines.
Coalition Supports Government Efforts
By Coalition Representing RHP in Auto Insurance ReformCoalition Representing Regulated Health Professionals in Auto Insurance Reform supports the government in its efforts to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of services provided under auto insurance
Cultural Wealth: Non-traditional Care Going Mainstream
By Daria PerevezentsevIt is crowded inside Dr. Adam Chen’s Markham AC99 acupuncture clinic. The waiting room is as diverse as the multicultural society that is Canada, with a wide spectrum of GTA residents all patiently waiting for Dr. Chen’s healing needles.
A Contrarian Debunks a Myth
By Alan Cassels, CD, MPAFor two decades, politicians, think tanks and media commentators have warned Canadians that an impending “demographic tsunami” in the form of a large and growing cohort of Canadians over 65 will carve a path of destruction through Canada’s universal health care system. Problem is, it ain’t true.
