September 2005

ACTION ITEMS

Standards of Arthritis Prevention and Care Summit: Is your health minister attending?

A CAPA member outlines the physical and economic costs of her disease and warns that unless health ministers work with arthritis stakeholders the burden of arthritis will be passed from generation to generation, government to government. read more | comments

Back to school:  A guide for parents with JIA children

What can parents expect from the teacher and the school system as their child, diagnosed with Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA), enters the early years of schooling? A step-by-step guide to a smooth transition each year. read more | comments

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Reflecting on leadership

The past six years of conceiving, creating and building a national arthritis patient organization have been very rewarding. read more | comments

COMMENT AND PERSPECTIVE

Where are we?  Check-up on Arthritis

Just in time for Arthritis Month. Checkup on Arthritis focuses on human health resources, and policies and programs affecting people with arthritis at the provincial and federal level. More comments

Getting there: A peek at the planning process for the SAPC Summit

It has probably been, and continues to be, the largest and most successful collaborative effort to take place in the world of arthritis. “It is like no other planning committee I have ever participated on”, says Catherine Hofstetter. “Had I only known what I was signing on for …” read more | comments

Research scientists begin investigation into multifactorial causes of arthritis

A team of national and international collaborators from over a dozen disciplines armed with astounding new technology and inspired by patients expect to make dramatic progress much sooner than most might imagine into effective arthritis prevention strategies. read more | comments

Looking for reliable information ...

The Cochrane Library and Cochrane products are reliable sources of medical information about treatments for any disease or condition because they are produced according to high standards to avoid biased or false information. read more | comments

Care III Conference advances arthritis care

Care III Conference advances arthritis care read more | comments

Inside the briefcase: Take a look

• • Common Drug Review – One year into its mandate
  • Consumers invited to Patented Medicine Price Review Board
  • Knowledge Exchange Task Force of IMHA identifies chronic pain as priority
  • Government appoints advisor on wait times

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS

It’s farewell, not goodbye

Lisa Cirella leaves the CAPA secretariat looking foward to continued collaborations with CAPA in her position as Director of Health Policy with Ward Health Strategies. Read her letter of farewell. read more | comments