Joanna Frketich
Health Reporter at The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON)
Health Reporter at The Hamilton Spectator. Send story ideas to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
As the province expands use of private surgical clinics, a union is raising alarm about research showing wealthy Ontarians going to the front of the line for cataract operations. “The wealthiest have increased access to surgeries and middle-class and lower-class people do not,” Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), said during a recent stop in Hamilton to raise awareness.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
How social disparities drive disease during aging will be studied by McMaster University researchers with $2 million in federal funding. “Different individuals have different experiences and understanding how that impacts their biology and the course of disease might allow us to create more personalized health care,” said Parminder Raina, who is leading the study.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
As measles continue to spread across Ontario, a Hamilton researcher is getting a lifetime achievement award for proving that vaccinating kids against infectious disease protects the entire community. It was just over 15 years ago that McMaster University Professor Dr. Mark Loeb upended public policy by showing that giving kids the flu shot protects unvaccinated adults around them from influenza as much as if they’d been immunized themselves.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
Dundas residents are asked to check their backyards, sheds, pools and security cameras as the search continues for a vulnerable man who has been missing for more than four days. John Edwards was last seen at 9:57 a.m., on June 11 when a surveillance camera caught the 62-year-old walking westbound on Baldwin Street from the McDonald’s restaurant. “Investigators believe John is in a vulnerable state due to cognitive impairment and there’s growing concern for his well-being,” Const.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
Community members are now at Hamilton’s public health decision-making table after long-awaited governance reform got the green light from the province. “I think it’s so vitally important to have those voices there,” Coun. Cameron Kroetsch said in an interview with The Spectator.
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Hamilton Health Sciences has been ordered by Ontario’s privacy commissioner to hand over records about two children dying after tonsil surgery. https://t.co/kwJYb5xZIu via @thespec
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