OTTAWA | A labour arbitrator has ruled that The Ottawa Hospital was not justified in ordering nurses and other employees to cover up their tattoos and remove their piercings.
American consumers are still having a hard time finding Tylenol on some drugstore shelves, more than three years since manufacturing problems created a disruption in supply.
FREDERICTON | New Brunswick's auditor general says the provincial government should release the details of compensation paid to doctors through medicare each year to provide greater accountability.
Class-action lawsuits make news for their big sums – last year, pharmaceutical giant Merck settled a suit over its heart drug Vioxx for $37-million – but a more prosaic challenge gets less attention.
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) employed in nursing grew 29% in Alberta in a five year period, yet the province has the second lowest number of LPNs per population of any Canadian jurisdiction and fewer than half work full time.
A Cox South nurse who would not get a flu vaccine and was fired for subsequently refusing to wear a surgical mask said Tuesday she now thinks the hospital violated its policy by not offering her other options.
