Category: clinics

Ontario Asks Family Clinics to Work Nights, Weekends to Help Overwhelmed Hospitals

Ontario has asked thousands of family health-care workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children’s hospitals, a government memo obtained by The Canadian Press shows. Nadia Surani, the director of the primary health care branch in the Ministry of Health, said in the note to family health teams that…


[PREMIERING AT 10 AM ET] Does Cosmetic Surgery Make Life Better?–I Ask Two Leading Surgeons

What if we could bring our face or body closer to “beautiful”—closer to the movie star or supermodel ideal, or just bring them closer to “normal”—to be more accepted, less judged in our day-to-day lives? Would we do it—if we could afford it? In this #VitalSigns episode, two leading cosmetic surgeons shed light on what…


Does Cosmetic Surgery Make Life Better?–I Ask Two Leading Surgeons

What if we could bring our face or body closer to “beautiful”—closer to the movie star or supermodel ideal, or just bring them closer to “normal”—to be more accepted, less judged in our day-to-day lives? Would we do it—if we could afford it? In this #VitalSigns episode, two leading cosmetic surgeons shed light on what…


Health Staff Shortages Cause Medical Clinic Closures in the Northern Territory, Australia

Just as the Northern Territory borders open and cases of COVID-19 grow to 123, a number of Territory clinics will be closing down for the Christmas holiday period. In a social media post on Monday evening, Country Liberal Party (CLP) Shadow Health Minister Bill Yan said that “ongoing staff shortages and crippling pressure on the…