Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Dealing with the harms of harm reduction

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 Some of the jurisdictions that pioneered harm reduction measures to reduce drug overdose deaths are dealing with problems of public drug us...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Interviews by lottery at Queens University School of Medicine

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 Overwhelmed by large numbers of applications, and concerned about fairness, Queens University will set admissions thresholds (on grades and...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Plasma in Canada: payments and protests

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 The local newspaper in Niagara on the Lake, a town in Ontario, Canada, covers the proposed opening next year of plasma collection centers t...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Medical aid in dying, and slippery slopes--the debate in Britain

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 The Oxford blog Practical Ethics considers medical aid in dying (MAID), and the slippery slope arguments that accompany current debates on...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Medical aid in dying considered in Britain, and evolving in Canada

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The Guardian has the story about England and Wales, and the NYT has a story on Canada. Here's the Guardian: Two former health secretarie...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Transplant grand rounds in Manitoba, tomorrow on kidney exchange

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  I'll be talking tomorrow to the transplant pros in Manitoba, about kidney exchange and transplants across borders, among other things....
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sex work contracts are enforceable in small claims court, in Canada

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 In Nova Scotia (where selling sex is legal but buying it is not), a sex worker sued a delinquent client for her fee and won (despite his ar...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Canadian kidney exchange reaches 1000 transplants

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  The May 2023 update from Canadian Blood Service s shows that Canada's kidney paired donation program recently performed its 1,000th tr...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Kidney transplants from donors who died from illegal drug use

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 There was a time when the modal deceased kidney donor had suffered a head injury in an auto accident, but that time is long gone, due to in...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Canada experiments with decriminalization of opioids and other drugs in British Columbia

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 From the CBC: What you need to know about the decriminalization of possessing illicit drugs in B.C.  B.C. granted exemption by federal gove...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Euthanasia in Canada

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  The NYT columnist Ross Douthat considers the medical aid in dying policies in Canada, and warns us that conservative politics is what prot...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Canadian Blood Services to start paying Canadian plasma donors

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  CBC news has the story, which seems to mark a turning point in a long struggle with repugnance for paying donors. Canadian Blood Services...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Canadian Blood Services in talks around paid donations of plasma

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Canadian Blood Services in talks around paid donations of plasma as supply dwindles. by Christopher Reynolds "Canadian Blood Services ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fentanyl by prescription: a Vancouver experiment

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 Part of the problem of black markets, particularly for drugs (but not just for drugs) is that customers are dealing with criminals who are ...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Harm reduction for drugs: an experiment in British Columbia

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  Here's a news story in the Guardian, and the policy paper from British Columbia about the new efforts on harm reduction there. Canada ...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Decriminalizing personal drug use

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 The WSJ has the story Some Cities Turn to Decriminalizing Drugs as Overdoses Climb. Toronto follows Vancouver and the state of Oregon in se...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Cannabis in Canada

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It's not so easy for a heavily regulated legal market to compete with an unregulated black market.  The NY Times has the story: After ‘G...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A non-simultaneous liver exchange chain at UCSF, and a brief history of liver exchange

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 Living donor liver transplants are relatively uncommon in North America compared to Asia.  Liver exchange might help change that. Here are ...