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Mashup Score: 4UK healthcare crisis lessons for Canada | White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 10 month(s) ago
Like Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, the UK’s National Health Service is in crisis. Overcrowded ERs are groaning with patients, there aren’t enough hospital beds and people are paying for some elective surgeries at private facilities. Nurses, ambulance workers and junior doctors are striking. Dr. Brian Goldman takes a guided tour of a hospital in Reading, England to hear their lessons…
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Mashup Score: 2How to protect yourself from heavy metals that could be causing heart disease | Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 11 month(s) ago
The Journal of the American Heart Association has published a scientific statement linking cardiovascular diseases to chronic exposure to low and “low‐moderate” levels of lead, cadmium, and arsenic. Doug Mulhall, who wrote about these heavy metals and the risk they pose in his new book, Discovering the Nature of Longevity, tells guest host Preston Mulligan how people can protect themselves.
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Mashup Score: 0ENCORE: Paramedic house call ride along | White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 12 month(s) ago
In Ontario’s Renfrew County, one in four people don’t have a primary caregiver. But an innovative program where community paramedics do house calls is helping take care of patients so they don’t need to go to the ER. And it just got permanent provincial funding.
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Mashup Score: 1Wildfire misinformation | Edmonton AM with Mark Connolly, Tara McCarthy | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 12 month(s) ago
In all the chaos of the wildfires rumours take flight with people questioning how the blazes started or where they’ve spread. Timothy Caulfield, a law professor at the University of Alberta who researches misinformation has been following some of the latest conspiracy theories people are sharing.
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Mashup Score: 1How early should breast cancer screening begin in Canada? | Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 12 month(s) ago
New draft recommendations from the U.S. call for breast cancer screening to begin a decade earlier than under current guidelines. We ask two doctors to weigh in on whether Canada should follow suit.
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CBC Radio’s Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors’ offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies.
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Mashup Score: 6U.S. Preventive Services suggests lowering age for breast cancer screenings | On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 1 year(s) ago
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is recommending breast cancer screenings for women ages 40 to 49. We spoke to Dr. Paula Gordon about whether Canada should follow suit.
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Mashup Score: 4Prescribing pharmacists | White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 1 year(s) ago
Alberta allows pharmacists to prescribe medications for a wide variety of ailments. Dr. Brian Goldman visits a pharmacist in that province to ask how it’s working out.
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Chances are you’re eating too much salt — and that can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease. Registered dietitian Samantha Chabior talks about how excess salt affects our bodies and shares her tips on how to cut back. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-dose-transcripts-listen-1.6732281
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Mashup Score: 7UK healthcare crisis lessons for Canada | White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman | Live Radio | CBC Listen - 1 year(s) ago
Like Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, the UK’s National Health Service is in crisis. Overcrowded ERs are groaning with patients, there aren’t enough hospital beds and people are paying for some elective surgeries at private facilities. Nurses, ambulance workers and junior doctors are striking. Dr. Brian Goldman takes a guided tour of a hospital in Reading, England to hear their lessons…
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This season on @cbcwhitecoat I went to the UK to examine the troubles at the #NHS. You can listen at https://t.co/64oUWKu3Gw. Sir Tony Blair thinks people should be allowed to pay for faster service. That calamity could happen in Canada. https://t.co/6N4i2qiq4Q