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Insulin 100 Symposium
On May 3, 2022, The Toronto Medical Historical Club celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin with a symposium. AMS Healthcare was honoured to be one of the sponsors of Banting, Bliss, and Beyond: A Century of Science and Care and of the Historical Workshop on J.J.R Macleod. The symposium was held at…
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Read MoreMandatory COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall? Ontario’s 1982 legislation spurred organized opposition
This blog was written by AMS Healthcare History of Medicine and Healthcare Program 2020 project grant recipient Catherine Carstairs and her colleagues from the University of Guelph. It very nicely supports the AMS Healthcare concept that History of Medicine research can and does act as a source of lessons that shape or inform the Canadian…
Read MoreImproving mental health care by fighting poverty
This was the first of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare considering lessons from home and abroad. Historically, Canadians embraced medicare as part of an effort to separate personal wealth from individual health. But, in defending our rights to enter hospitals without risking financial ruin, did we swallow a bitter…
Read MoreThere’s room for competition in public healthcare
This is the last of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare looking at lessons from home and abroad Carol Propper is a professor of economics at Imperial College Business School, London Do competition and choice improve health care? Or is health care just too complex and emotive an area to…
Read MoreMedicare doesn’t have to be expensive…just look at Israel
This was the fourth of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare considering lessons from home and abroad. Bruce Rosen is director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem. In Canada, there is an ongoing debate about whether to expand medicare to include a…
Read MoreAddressing jurisdictional disputes to improve Indigenous heath
This was the second of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Josée Lavoie is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, and director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, at the University of Manitoba. In 2017, there…
Read MoreCanada should take healthcare lessons from Australia
This was the third of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Stephen Duckett is Director of the health program at Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and is a former head of the Australian Government Department of Health. Australia and Canada share many characteristics,…
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