Healthcare

Preoperative smoking status is a significant predictor of 30-day complications and one-year mortality in patients undergoing elective arthroplasty, researchers reported.

College calls Dr. Pierre Mailloux’s comments ‘unworthy of a doctor’

Patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) may benefit from continuing COX-2 inhibitor therapy in the early phase of their recovery.

Physicians may choose riskier treatment for themselves than they'd recommend for their patients, according to a study that highlights a need for candid discussions about patients' preferences

Want Canadians to see how parties plan to transform health-care system for future

Quebec telepathology project to become largest Canadian initiative of its kind