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Morning Update: Canada’s weighty problem ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

Good morning. Canada could become the first country in the world to get generic Ozempic, so we are launching a series to explore the medical and cultural shifts in how we treat weight loss. More on that below, along with mass arrests in Iran and negotiations at the White House. But first: ...

Ontario touts drop in number of residents lacking primary-care providers ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

More than 275,000 Ontarians were newly enrolled with a family doctor or nurse practitioner in the first nine months of last year, according to the province, but the government still has a long way to go to reach its goal of ensuring every resident has a primary-care provider by 2029. ...

Jane Philpott has been Ontario’s family-medicine czar for a year. What’s changed, and what’s next? ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

In the lobby of a grocery store in the Leaside neighbourhood of Toronto, a small group of perky women and one man are trying to thrust flyers into the hands of customers. Many shoppers, pushing carts and laden with bags, rush past them, assuming they’re soliciting donations or selling something. ...

Quebec will not cover Health Canada-approved Alzheimer’s drug ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

A scientist looks at scans at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. The Health Canada-approved drug, lecanemab, slows progression of Alzheimer’s disease by 27 per cent on average, according to the main clinical trial that led to regulatory ...

Almost 2x the amount of Americans in medical debt than there are Canadian people existing on Planet Earth. ( www.commonwealthfund.org )

"In fact, 41 percent of working-age Americans—or 72 million people—have medical bill problems or are paying off medical debt, up from 34 percent in 2005. If you add in the 7 million elderly adults who are also dealing with these issues, a total of 79 million Americans have medical bill or debt problems." ...