Jocelyn Downie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic hurdles us to the breaking point of our medical system in various hot spots across the country, we are being forced to face our faults and our fears in the raw. As a first ...

Background: The recent outbreaks of avian influenza (H5N1) have placed a renewed emphasis on preparing for an influenza pandemic in humans. Of particular concern in this planning is the allocation of ...

It is a well-documented fact that telehealth use exploded across the country in 2020, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But several hurdles quickly emerged, including the question of how best to ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

When evaluating patients presenting to an emergency department (ED), a quick, visual assessment ("eyeball triage") is better than a formal triage when it comes to predicting mortality, a study has ...

Across Canada, the coronavirus pandemic is increasing the demand for already scarce critical care resources. In the coming weeks, there is a very real chance that there won’t be enough ventilators and ...

About the author: Jocelyn Downie is the James Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law and University Research Professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Across Canada, the ...