Healthcare

Providing healthcare facilities with real-time data on rates and costs of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) is the aim of a joint feasibility program launched by 3M Infection Prevention and RL Solutions.

Construction of Ontario’s new Woodstock General Hospital has been completed on time and on budget. Now the state-of-the-art healthcare facility will begin preparations for occupancy on Nov. 20, 2011.

Three decades after his death, Terry Fox remains one of the country's most recognizable heroes.

Manitoba has announced a new women’s health strategy and broken ground on a new women’s hospital, scheduled to open in 2014, at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

New joint statement provides evidence-based information to promote safe sleeping environments for infants and assist in preventing SIDS.

TORONTO | The Ontario Medical Association is reeling from the provincial government’s decision to ramp up investigations into suspicious Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) billings—a decision that is sitting well with other health-care workers and groups.

Pharmacies in B.C. may no longer use loyalty programs to encourage prescription orders.