Healthcare

TORONTO | The for-profit healthcare company that was poised to buy Shouldice Hospitalin Ontario has announced that it has abandoned its plans due to the political climate in the province.

BURLINGTON, ONT. | The ABELMed EHR - EMR/ (PM) version 12 electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management solution has achieved Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) J-class laboratory and clinical documents certification.

We caught up with Charles Tabouchirani, owner of New York's Cherry’s Pharmacy, about how his store is coping with the aftermath of the historic hurricane.

OTTAWA | The University of Ottawa Heart Institute has announced “striking” results in radiation reduction for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Kishore Singh is originally from Durban, South Africa, and got his medical degree from Natal University there in 1986. He is family physician and operates the Appleby Medical Centre in Burlington, Ont., with his wife, Arlini Singh. He is also an associate professor of family medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.

Check out our review of recent medical stories in the media - Top Story: Dr. Anna Reid's unique perspective. Read this and

Dr. Brian Day's arguments about care delivered on the basis of ability to pay rather than clinical need would be amusing and even quaint if they were not so obviously self-serving. And his moral defense of his concept of “patient’s rights” would be more convincing if the successful outcome of his court case were not so lucrative.

Health Canada forces pharmacy owner to destroy $16,000 worth of nattokinase, a soy-based natural remedy for thinning the blood.