Canadian Medical Association

The federal Liberal government is promising a new agency to negotiate prescription drug prices for Canadians and try to drive down costs — a move billed as an "important step" on the path to an eventual national pharmacare plan.

It is an election year and all of our organizations - the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association, the Urban Public Health Network, the Canadian Public Health Association, and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment – agree that climate change is too important to health to be treated as a wedge issue in in the upcoming federal election.

Digitally savvy Canadians who make up the Google Generation are on the leading edge of a transformation in the health-care system that will see a greater reliance on technology, including how doctors interact with their patients, a survey commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association suggests.

Physicians are calling on the federal government to shell out another $21 billion over the next decade to help provinces and territories pay for soaring health care costs that will be propelled by the unavoidable growth of Canada's seniors population.

Health groups joined forces on Sunday, October 22, 2017, with the Conservative opposition to accuse the Liberal government of trying to raise tax revenue on the backs of vulnerable diabetics.

Canada's health ministers are looking at ways of working together, including an electronic prescription database, to fight the growing crisis in opioid addictions.

Doctors across Canada who support Finance Minister Bill Morneau's proposed tax reforms say they want their voices to be heard above the din of criticism from colleagues and medical societies.

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says Canada's doctors have a major role to play in improving the health of the country's most vulnerable populations.

Air pollution cost Canadian families an estimated $36 billion in 2015 due to premature death and illness, a new research report says.

Marijuana is a "dangerous drug," Kellie Leitch said on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 as she promised to undo the Liberal government's efforts to legalize it, should she become prime minister.

Anyone who showed up to watch a federal cabinet minister battle it out with her Quebec counterpart over health care funding negotiations would leave disappointed, warned Health Minister Jane Philpott.

If legalized, 72 per cent of surveyed physicians think the government should regulate THC levels in recreational marijuana, and over half don't want medical weed sold in pharmacies.

Doctors are already seeing the effects of an aging population and those issues will only continue to grow over the coming decades.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says help is on the way to battle a COVID-19 wave that continues to overwhelm hospitals.