Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: September 22, 2025 - 12:50
Ontario to expand funding for primary health-care teams based on initial success
September 22, 2025
The Ontario government says its plan to fund new primary care clinics across the province is paying dividends, with nearly 100,000 patients on the official waiting list for a family doctor having recently found a new medical provider.
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the number of people registered on Health Care Connect has fallen by 42 per cent since the Progressive Conservative government began a concerted effort to expand access to primary care in a province where 2.5 million people did not have a family doctor as of September, 2023.
Unpublished Newswire
“A dollar a day keeps the doctor away,” Pika, one of my girls, said as she nibbled an afternoon snack at the kitchen table.
I wondered at the way she had mangled the “apple a day” aphorism. The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying.
She had picked up her dollar-centric version from classmates: “That’s what they all say!”
Like generations before, Pika and her peers are dazzled by the glitter of consumerist culture. Today, they are hyperaware of not...
September 27, 2025 - 06:30 | Priyanka Kumar | Walrus
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September 27, 2025 - 06:00 | Makda Mulatu | Walrus
A viral study claiming a daily shot of apple cider vinegar can help people lose weight was, it appears, as far-fetched as it sounded.
This week, the study was retracted by a major medical publishing group after “multiple analytic errors” were identified, and more than a year after it was originally published, along with a press release.
Apple cider vinegar is a fave of celebrities like Katy Perry, who told
Women’s Health...
September 27, 2025 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
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