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Poilievre says he would launch $44B lawsuit against Big Pharma to fund drug addiction treatment

Poilievre says he would launch B lawsuit against Big Pharma to fund drug addiction treatment

Asked whether he intends to alter the current rules around supervised consumption sites, Poilievre would only say ‘the existing overall system has failed’

The Canadian Press

Stephanie Taylor

Published Mar 14, 2023  •  Last updated 2 days ago  •  3 minute read

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during an announcement and news conference in New Westminster, B.C., on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during an announcement and news conference in New Westminster, B.C., on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday that if he became prime minister, he would sue pharmaceutical companies as a way to fund drug treatment — but he wouldn’t say what he would do about sites where users can consume drugs under supervision.

Poilievre made the pledge during a stop in Metro Vancouver, a region of the country he has routinely criticized for its approach to the opioid crisis. He once called Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood “hell on earth.”

The Tory leader has said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the NDP-led provincial government are both contributing to the problem in British Columbia by offering a safe supply of drugs to some users and decriminalizing small amounts of certain illicit substances.

He has panned such measures as being part of a “failed experiment.”

During a video on the topic of harm reduction filmed in front of a tent encampment in Vancouver last November, Poilievre posed a question that would become the centrepiece of his Conservative message: “Do you ever feel like everything’s broken in Canada?”

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Poilievre has pledged to end the provision of a safer supply of drugs and disallow decriminalization. The positions earned swift condemnation from political opponents and drug policy experts, who say the measures are needed to mitigate a toxic drug supply that has led to thousands of preventable overdoses and deaths.

Poilievre reiterated his position on Tuesday.

“I don’t believe in flooding our communities with more and more taxpayer-funded drugs,” he said.

Instead, he said he would focus on providing users with more recovery and treatment options.

He said that to pay for those, he would launch a $44 billion lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the prescription drugs that many users are addicted to, as well as join an existing class-action suit that B.C. has launched.

“Those programs are going to cost a lot of money. It’s worth the money, but who should pay?”

Poilievre also said he believes in distributing medications that ease the symptoms of drug withdrawal and overdose antidotes such as naloxone.

Asked Tuesday whether he intends to alter the current rules around supervised consumption sites — where users can bring drugs to inject or inhale under the watch of staff — the Conservative leader would only say that “the existing overall system has failed.”

The federal government currently funds safe supply programs at 20 centres across the country.

Supervised consumption sites are more common. Some offer supply programs, but many do not.

In addition to supervision, the sites typically offer services such as drug testing and clean needles. They also help users connect with various support services, including housing help. To operate, providers require a federal exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Federal Conservatives have had long-standing concerns over such sites, and former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government took issue with their expansion during his time in office, citing their perceived effect on public safety.

In 2013, Harper’s government ushered in legislation titled the “Respect for Communities Act,” which stipulated that organizations looking to open such facilities had to meet a set of strict criteria in order for their applications to be considered.

After the Liberals came to power in 2015, Trudeau’s government passed a bill that reduced the criteria projects needed to meet to eight, down from 26. By 2020, Ottawa reported that 39 such sites were operating.

Poilievre frequently points to Alberta’s United Conservative government as having a treatment-focused approach to addictions that is worth emulating.

Former premier Jason Kenney had spoken out against supervised consumption sites and assembled a panel to probe their impact on crime, property values and safety.

The government moved some of the sites, pointing to such concerns. But according to Health Canada, five still operate in the province — three in Edmonton, one in Calgary and one in Grand Prairie, Alta. The government does not list any safe supply projects in the province.

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Daxko Empowers Health and Fitness Professionals with Launch of UpLaunch ASAP Website Builder

Daxko Empowers Health and Fitness Professionals with Launch of UpLaunch ASAP Website Builder

New tool streamlines on the internet existence for exercise business enterprise house owners, producing it simple to link with new and existing associates

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and DENVER , Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Daxko, the well being, health and fitness, and wellness industry’s leading application and integrated payments supplier, declared right now UpLaunch ASAP, a platform that delivers a easy and streamlined tactic to developing fitness websites. This progressive device makes it possible for exercise entrepreneurs to speedily generate a specialist, purpose-constructed conditioning business enterprise website that improves interaction and connection with both equally new and current customers.

UpLaunch ASAP web-sites are component of the broader UpLaunch conditioning industry advertising options portfolio which consists of exercise-unique equipment and companies for internet marketing automation, neighborhood Search engine optimisation, neighborhood paid social, and greater custom web-sites. UpLaunch ASAP is ideal for tiny to medium physical fitness business owners who want to get a new fitness center, yoga studio, or martial arts dojo up and managing speedily and proficiently. Its purpose-crafted conditioning website design alleviates the discomfort points of conventional website building with its consumer-welcoming and clear-cut interface and physical fitness website templates, permitting business owners to go from thought to new associates in a handful of days.

“With UpLaunch ASAP, producing a personalized health web page has never ever been less difficult for boutique conditioning entrepreneurs who want to build an on the net existence, speedily increase their physical fitness company, and start to make a change in the lives of associates,” claimed Wendy White, Chief Advertising Officer at Daxko. “UpLaunch leveraged its know-how in producing hundreds of health web-sites to develop the great reason-constructed physical fitness web-site experience. This offers a hectic exercise entrepreneur a rapidly flip website that is cell-pleasant and completely responsive, guaranteeing a great working experience all over the place.”

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  • Seamless integration with UpLaunch & ZenPlanner for advertising and marketing automation & on the internet course scheduling
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  • UpLaunch ASAP Helpdesk accessible with normally asked queries and very best practices

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About Daxko
Daxko delivers thorough technology methods, built-in payment processing, experienced products and services and deep insights to all forms of well being and health and fitness centers—enterprise health and fitness clubs, boutique fitness studios, affiliate gyms, campus recreation services, integrated wellness centers, YMCAs, and JCCs. Since 1998, the Daxko Country of brands which includes Zen Planner, SugarWod, Club Automation, and additional, serve consumers spanning 55 countries, almost 19,000 services, and over 25 million+ users. For more information, please stop by www.daxko.com.

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Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch joint project to realize data portability in the healthcare field : Fujitsu Global

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch joint project to realize data portability in the healthcare field : Fujitsu Global

Fujitsu Limited, Sapporo Medical University

Tokyo and Sapporo, January 16, 2023

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University today announced the launch of a joint project starting in April 2023 to realize data portability (1) for patients’ healthcare data including electronic health records (EHRs) (2) and personal health records (PHRs) (3).

As part of the joint project, Fujitsu will develop a mobile app that enables users to view healthcare data on their iPhones (4) and a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patients’ health data. This project marks the first initiative in Japan to link electronic medical records with Apple’s Health app under Apple’s support.

EHR data stored on the newly developed external healthcare data platform will be converted to a format in accordance with JP Core (FHIR JP Core Implementation Guide Version 1.1.1) (5), the latest Japanese guideline under the next generation standards framework HL7 FHIR for health information exchange.

By empowering patients to access their medical data from anywhere at any time and play a more active role in managing their own health, the project aims to contribute to the provision of optimal medical care and services tailored to the health conditions of individual patients while simultaneously improving patient engagement (6).

Sapporo Medical University Hospital, the affiliated hospital of Sapporo Medical University, aims to introduce the system in April 2023.

Background

Japan currently faces increasing demographic pressures as it confronts the challenges posed by one of the oldest populations in the world. In addition to medical services, the usage of medical health data in patients’ individual health management represents an important issue both for patients and their families. To enable patients as well as medical providers to more easily manage medical data, many countries world-wide are implementing national standards under the HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) framework designed to enable the rapid exchange of healthcare-related information, including medical records and other patient data. Many of these initiatives also increasingly promote the use of smartphone apps for health management.

In Japan, however, the scope of use of EHRs and other schemes that allow patients to manage health data on mobiles devices remains limited. To this end, in recent years the Japanese government and relevant ministries started to examine measures (7) to implement a framework whereby patients can manage both EHRs issued by medical institutions and their own vital data by themselves.

Fujitsu, which has been working to standardize EHRs and develop secure cloud technologies, and Sapporo Medical University, which has been working to improve the quality of advanced medical care in the Hokkaido area, launched a joint project using healthcare data at Sapporo Medical University Hospital to realize data portability in the healthcare field.

About the joint project

1. Overview

As part of their collaboration, Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University aim to develop a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patient data and a system that enables patients to view their personal health information such as EHRs from anywhere at any time on their smartphones.

By storing patients’ EHRs and vital data on the healthcare data platform and providing access to the data, Sapporo Medical University Hospital aims to improve the quality of medical services based on a detailed understanding of patients’ health conditions.

Fujitsu will develop a smartphone app to access JP Core-compliant cloud-based EHRs issued by Sapporo Medical University Hospital, as well as a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patient data. On the app, patients will be able to choose whether they want to store their data externally and to decide about the scope of usage of their personal and healthcare data. In accordance with patients’ consent settings, Fujitsu will store information from patients’ EHRs and vital data measured by their iPhones or Apple Watches (4) in a healthcare data base.

Fujitsu will develop the new app using Apple’s “HealthKit” (4) framework and will receive Apple’s technical support within this initiative.

Using the new system, patients will be able to check past medical information they received from hospitals, including test results and medication prescriptions on the app as part of their individual health management.

2. Roles and responsibilities

Fujitsu

  • Construction of a scheme to convert medical data into HL7 FHIR format
  • Development and provision of smartphone app for patients to view EHRs
  • Establishment of a system for consent acquisition and management that enables patients to decide about the use of their healthcare data
  • Provision of healthcare data platform to manage EHRs, vital data, and other data

Sapporo Medical University Hospital

  • Assistance in development of system to convert medical data into HL7 FHIR format
  • Support of system design during app development from medical field viewpoint
  • Improvement of the quality of healthcare through the use of healthcare data in clinical practice
  • Examination of a new regional healthcare model using a healthcare data platform
  • Supervision of system design and operation of the new system in the hospital
  • Promotion of the new app to patients

Image 1: Overview of the initiativeImage 1: Overview of the initiative

Image 2: App screen image (in Japanese)Image 2: App screen image (in Japanese)

Future Plans

Moving forward, Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University will examine additional ways to further utilize healthcare data and realize data portability, and plan to draw on data from multiple medical institutions to build a framework for advanced regional medical cooperation with medical institutions in Hokkaido in Japan.

Sapporo Medical University Hospital will promote the development of an environment for the utilization of healthcare data in clinical practice. As a core hospital for regional medical care in Hokkaido, it will further expand data collaboration among hospitals in Hokkaido and promote the provision of advanced medical care tailored to each patient based on more detailed PHRs. Sapporo Medical University further plans to use individual patients’ healthcare data in R&D of AI technology for diabetes treatment at its facilities and AI research previously conducted using EHRs. Sapporo Medical University anticipates that patients’ healthcare data (collected with patients’ consensus) can in future be used as useful information for selecting appropriate health treatments.

Fujitsu aims to provide comprehensive, personalized healthcare by combining a wide range of healthcare data with the latest digital technologies. Fujitsu will continue to promote “Healthy Living,” one of its key focus areas under its global business brand Fujitsu Uvance, to help create a world that enriches the life experience of everyone.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As the digital transformation partner of choice for customers in over 100 countries, our 124,000 employees work to resolve some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Our range of services and solutions draw on five key technologies: Computing, Networks, AI, Data & Security, and Converging Technologies, which we bring together to deliver sustainability transformation. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$32 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and remains the top digital services company in Japan by market share. Find out more: www.fujitsu.com.

About Sapporo Medical University

Sapporo Medical University aims to contribute to the improvement of the welfare of communities in Hokkaido as well as to the cultural development of Humanity by teaching the theory and practical application of medicine and health sciences, conducting in-depth research and fostering students’ intellect, morality and practical abilities.

Sapporo Medical University Hospital has facilities in 29 clinical divisions and 938 inpatient beds. It provides advanced, state-of-the-art medical care, such as emergency medical care, cancer treatment and regenerative medicine, and also plays a significant role as a medical institution that assists the development of local medical services and accepts patients from remote areas in Hokkaido in cases of disasters. Find out more: https://web.sapmed.ac.jp/e/index.html

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Date: 16 January, 2023

City: Tokyo and Sapporo, Japan

Company: Fujitsu Limited, Sapporo Medical University

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‘Queer Eye’ stars launch pet lifestyle, nutrition brand

‘Queer Eye’ stars launch pet lifestyle, nutrition brand

LOS ANGELES — New omni-channel pet lifestyle brand Yummers launched Sept. 15 with a line of premium pet food combine-ins. Yummers’ combine-ins present 18 merchandise for equally puppies and cats out there in connoisseur and useful recipes.

With extra than 90 million US pet parents looking for nutritious pet food items products and solutions that also make their pets delighted, in accordance to Yummers, the new merchandise attempt to amplify a pet’s existing meal by giving range and a raise of nutrients.

The model was founded by Rebecca Frechetter Rudisch, chief government officer of Yummers, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness, stars of the Television sequence “Queer Eye.” In accordance to the founders, they ended up encouraged by their possess pets to make Yummers.

“I’m so thrilled to companion with Jonathan and Rebecca to produce Yummers, a truly distinctive and joyful method to pet parenting,” Porowski reported. “I am so grateful to have invested most of my everyday living all-around dogs and care deeply for their diet and overall wellbeing mainly because they have offered and taught me so much. Foods is all about really like and connection, and I’ve identified that it is really certainly 1 of the greatest approaches to clearly show how a lot you care about your pet.”

Petco Overall health and Wellness will serve as the brand’s distinctive retailer, carrying its solutions at much more than 1,000 pet retail suppliers and on the web through its e-commerce platform.

“We’re thrilled to deliver even far more higher-good quality, progressive diet possibilities to our curated assortment with the introduction of the Yummers line to Petco pet care facilities nationwide,” said Shari White, senior vice president of merchandising and consumables at Petco. “At Petco, we are committed to enhancing the life of pets by means of a comprehensive, 360-degree technique to their wellbeing and wellness, and Yummers’ focus on pets’ nourishment, joy and general wellbeing is absolutely aligned with our mission.”

Formulated with high-high-quality substances, like protein, Yummers’ pet food stuff combine-ins are accessible in two traces: Gourmet and Practical. The Gourmand combine-ins are freeze-dried and function single-component proteins, accessible in Rooster, Beef Liver, Cheddar Cheese, Salmon and Sweet Potato, and Turkey and Cranberry flavors. The Useful mix-ins give additional vitamins that focus on specific pet health and fitness worries, like pores and skin and coat, digestive and coronary heart health and fitness. The combine-ins can be combined with one an additional, as effectively as a pet’s normal meal, to present much more taste and range though boosting diet.

“Some of the most fulfilling relationships in my everyday living have been with my pets and they have enriched my daily life further than text,” Van Ness claimed. “We have bonded around our like for animals, and we want Yummers to assistance individuals give all the joy and really like back again to their animals that they give to us.”

All of Yummers’ recipes are grain-cost-free and meat-initial and are sourced, manufactured and packaged in the United States. The brand’s packaging is made from post-consumer recycled (PCR) products and utilizes sustainable printing inks to support lower waste.

“Pets ought to have an amazing daily life and that commences at mealtime,” Rudisch said. “At Yummers, we celebrate the pleasure, satisfaction and fulfillment pet mothers and fathers experience when they provide the very best care and lifetime knowledge for their animals.”

Yummers’ products and solutions are offered at YummersPets.com, with an choice to subscribe for auto shipping and delivery, as very well as at Petco.

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