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| | This article has been updated. The health problems faced by Long Covid sufferers need to be addressed urgently, say six women in Britain who have just published an open letter drawing attention to the plight of those experiencing persistent symptoms long after being infected by SARS-CoV-2. The six women, who are themselves Covid long haulers,...
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| | BACKGROUND: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized across Canada in June 2016. Some have expressed concern that patient requests for MAiD might be driven by poor access to palliative care and that social and economic vulnerability of patients may influence access to or receipt of MAiD. To examine these concerns, we describe Ontario's early experience with MAiD and compare MAiD decedents with the general population of decedents in Ontario. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing all MAiD-related deaths with all deaths in Ontario, Canada, between June 7, 2016, and Oct. 31, 2018. Clinical and demographic characteristics were collected for all MAiD decedents and compared with those of all Ontario decedents when possible. We used lo...
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| | With the advent of the social impact bond... if Adam Smith were around today, he'd be talking not just about the invisible hand of markets but the invisible heart of markets. - Sir Ronald Cohen (a.k.a. "high priest of money-making"). On the Rockefeller Foundation website, president Judith Rodin asks, "How can innovative finance shift charity to
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