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Cities & States Sue Big Pharma Targeting the Firms who Profited from Peddling Addictive Opioids

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    • PHARMA
    • PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
    • PRIVATE FOR PROFIT
    • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
    • RESEARCH ARTICLES
    • RESIDENTIAL CARE
    • Premier John Horgan opens door to including dental coverage within B.C.’s health care system
    • Canada has the key to lowering drug prices. Here’s why it won’t be used any time soon
    • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford care centre leave disappointed
    • Bill 29 and Bill 94 repealed
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC on the BC Rural Health Network
    • Thunder Bay’s Rapid Access Clinic for hip, knee conditions cuts wait times from years to weeks
    • Universal Pharmacare and Federalism
    • Vancouver health authority ends contract with private surgery centre over patient-pay issues
    • Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
    • Welcome to our new member
    • Perry Kendall: Free up money to solve doctor shortage
    • Chris Pengilly: Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
    • Too many Canadians can’t afford their medication
    • Dr. Eric Cadesky: B.C. doctors working to improve care for residential-care patients
    • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
    • BC Select Standing Committee on Health – 2017 Report
    • Every Voice Counts: Provincial Residential Care Survey Results
    • Pharma companies could be forced to reveal payments to B.C. doctors
    • Government expanding coverage for insulin pumps, eliminating age restriction
    • Victoria increases respite care for home caregivers by $75 million
    • BC needs to approve physician assistants
    • Government adds pharmacists into primary and community care
    • How Ontario’s next government could relieve overcrowded hospitals
    • China Caring for our Seniors
    • Charter challenge issue strike at the heart of the priniciples of medicare
    • Cities & States Sue Big Pharma Targeting the Firms who Profited from Peddling Addictive Opioids
    • Advocates demand end to extra billing, upset over 15.9 million federal claw back
    • Legislation will prohibit payment for blood and plasma collection
    • North Vancouver’s HealthConnection clinic lauded for its innovative approach in treating vulnerable patients
    • A Welcome Second Chance for BC Medicare Protection
    • BC Health Coalition Applauds the new Team Based Primary Health Care Strategy
    • New UBC chair determined to improve health care for BC’s rural residents
    • The B.C. government wil be implementing strategies that will increase access to surgeries such as hip and knee replacement
    • All Canadians deserve pharmacare, not just MPs
    • Doctors of BC – provinical government program brings new international doctors to rural B.C.
    • We need to listen to voices of older patients
    • Welcome to the BC Rural Health Network
  • Members
    • Ashcroft
    • Castlegar and District Hospital Foundation
    • Chase
    • City of Castlegar
    • East Shore Kootenay Lake
    • Fort Nelson
    • Fort St. John
    • Fraser Lake
    • Hornby and Denman Islands
    • Kaslo and Area D
    • Nelson
    • Nuu-chah-nulth
    • Powell River
    • Princeton
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • Salt Spring Island
    • Sicamous
    • Slocan Valley
    • Sorrento
    • South Shuswap
    • Trail
    • UBC – Centre for Rural Health Research
    • Village of Slocan
    • Individuals
  • Partners
    • Jude Kornelsen
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • BC Health Coalition
    • Health Sciences Association
  • Related Sites
    • Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
    • BC Association of Community Health Centres
    • BC Rural Health Research Conference (Nelson) Registration
    • BC Health Coalition
    • Rural Health Services Research Network
    • Seniors Advocate BC
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
  • Research
    • Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
    • Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
    • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
    • BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
    • Share Your Story
    • BCRHN report to the MOH on CHC policy development
    • Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
    • Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference, April 2018
    • Rural Health Services Research Conference in Nelson
    • Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
    • Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
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