Healthcare

AMA urges a rethink after CPSA calls for private MRI ban
Med students told: ‘You know you’re a rural doctor when …’

Funny lines but message serious about busting the myth that intelligence is inversely related to the distance you are from the city
Video: New Brunswick nurses seek ways to cut sick days by 20%

The New Brunswick Nurses Union is looking to find ways to cut the number of sick days taken by their members by 20 per cent.
Press Review - September 3, 2013
Coming to Canada as a Nurse – The Process
London surgeons first in Canada to use single incision for living-donor kidney transplant

LONDON, Ont. | Surgeons at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) have made Canadian history by performing the first living-donor kidney removal for transplant purposes, using a single incision point.
Stateside: Controversial Bill Would Allow NPs To Perform Abortions

A bill that has passed the California legislature would allow non-physicians to perform abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Next-generation drug-eluting stent approved by Health Canada

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. | Abbott has announced that the Xience Xpeditio Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System has received Health Canada approval and is launching immediately in Canada.

Canadian Nurses Association names new CEO