Take cancer check: doctor

That’s the advice of Dr. Nicole Zavagnin, the regional primary care lead for Cancer Care Ontario at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. “Regular, age-appropriate cancer screening can help us to identify certain cancers when they are smaller and more easily treated,” Zavagnin said Wednesday.

Ontario children and youth with ADHD often prescribed antipsychotics, study finds

A study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found almost 12 per cent of kids and youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, were prescribed antipsychotics like Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel. One in 20 Ontario children and youth have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and many are prescribed antipsychotic drugs, despite having no other mental health diagnoses, researchers have found.

Ontario Proposes New Thre Year Plan To OMA

December, Ontario shared with the Ontario Medical Association a proposed three-year plan that would improve patient access to care, provide more support for family physicians, and build stability into Ontario’s health-care budget. Under the terms of the proposed plan, patients would receive more timely access to family physicians; family doctors would receive additional support; and fees paid to specialists would be reduced for certain procedures that can now be conducted with greater ease and at lesser cost.