Virtual care more effective with your own family doctor rather than an outside physician: study

Dr. Tara Kiran spoke with CTV News about how different types of virtual care impact downstream healthcare use and outcomes for patients. Dr. Kiran is an author on a new study in  JAMA Network Open that found that those who saw their family doctor virtually were less likely to visit the emergency department in the next week, compared to those who had a virtual care visit with a doctor they had never met before.

Calls to end ‘race correction’ in health care

Common diagnostic health tests have long been interpreted differently for Black patients — a practice called “race correction,” which has systematically denied access to timely and sometimes life-saving care. The Current’s Matt Galloway talks to LLana James, co-chair of the Canada-US Coalition to End Race Correction in Healthcare; and Dr. Nav Persaud, the Canada Research Chair in Health Justice at St. Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto.

‘We want to keep people alive’: Outreach workers call for tools to combat toxic new street drugs

CBC News spoke with Karen McDonald, lead of MAP’s Drug Checking Service about the challenges of fighting the overdose crisis when the drugs are rapidly changing, and the importance of drug checking. “It’s important for people to know what it is that they’re using, just so that they can make safer choices,” she says.

Health care in Canada could be more like Norway’s, with some improvements: study

Dr. Tara Kiran spoke with CTV News about how Canada is trailing behind other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries when it comes to both the number of physicians relative to the population, and its spending on primary care, according to a new analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Canada falls short in several areas of health care in comparison to other OECD countries, report says

Dr. Tara Kiran spoke with The Globe and Mail about a new report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which reveals how Canada falls short in several key areas in comparison with nine other Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Canada has fewer physicians overall per capita, spends less of its total health budget on primary care, and has relatively high maternal- and infant-mortality rates.