Patient Compliance

Not so fast, says Canadian expert, while lamenting physiotherapy funding problems

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics.

Nurses are frequently placed in situations where they lack the time, and in some cases the resources to care for patients in the way they would like to.

Compound counteracts condition where erections are so long lasting they can cause permanent damage.

There’s an “epidemic” of disjointed communication through the health care system, according to a Thompson Rivers University nursing instructor.

Patients, nurses and employees of Rouge Valley Health System and The Scarborough Hospital are launching a campaign on Tuesday, Oct. 15, against “hospital service cuts” in Scarborough and Ajax.

MONTREAL | Abbott says its i-STAT b-hCG is the only in vitro diagnostic point-of-care whole blood test for the early detection of pregnancy capable of delivering both quantitative and qualitative results within 10 minutes at the patient's bedside.