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Merck Canada and MaRS Team Up to Launch Lung Cancer Innovation Challenge Challenge aimed at improving patient outcomes by identifying solutions to reduce time between diagnosis and treatment for lung cancer patients Merck Canada and MaRS Discovery District are proud to launch the Lung Cancer Innovation Challenge . The competition challenges Ontario -based innovators to identify, implement and scale solutions that can enhance an Ontario lung cancer patient’s journey by seeking to reduce … Challenge aimed at improving patient outcomes by identifying solutions to reduce time between diagnos...

Provinces Catch Up on Cancelled Surgeries, but Long Waits Persist Many surgeries cancelled by lockdowns last spring have since taken place, but experts say even the best-performing provinces still struggle with chronically long wait times. In British Columbia, about 30,000 procedures were cancelled or never scheduled during the two-month shutdown last spring. The province recently reported that as of Nov. 12, 2020, surgeries had been completed for 90 percent of patients whose operations had been postponed. Although a wait list of 88,401 still remained, it was 4 percent less than the same peri...

Patients see long waits for COVID-19 vaccine at Harrison County Health Department Patients see long waits for COVID-19 vaccine at Harrison County Health Department By Andrés Fuentes | January 11, 2021 at 9:29 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 7:11 AM GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Nationally, patients are experiencing long wait times when heading out to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and that includes the site at the Harrison County Health Department. Residents 75 and older can now apply to receive the vaccine but on Monday, some of South Mississippi’s most at-risk residents waited long hours...

90 Percent of Surgeries Postponed During First COVID-19 Wave Now Completed, BC Says The B.C. government said 90 percent of patients who had their surgeries postponed during the first wave of COVID-19 had completed their surgeries as of Nov. 22, 2020. B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix announced Wednesday that between May 18 and Nov. 12, 2020, over 163,000 patients were able to have their procedures done, including 90 percent of those whose surgeries had to be postponed during the first wave of the pandemic. The turnaround came as a result of a surgery renewal plan launched on May 7 to resume non...

VANCOUVER—Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical treatment, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. The study, an annual survey of physicians from across Canada, reports a median wait time of 22.6 weeks—the longest ever recorded—and 143 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when national estimates of the wait for medically necessary elective treatments were first calculated. Before this year, the longest recorded median wait time was 21.2 weeks in 20...