The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group is making women’s unique mental health issues a top priority. But, as psychiatrist Dr. Alison Freeland point out, there’s still work to be done before gender-specific assessment and care are widely available.
Giving intermittent high doses of an inhaled steroid at the first sign of a respiratory infection is as effective at preventing wheezing episodes as daily low doses of an inhaled corticosteroid in preschool-aged children who have recurrent wheezing and are at risk for developing asthma.
LONDON, ONT. _ A training program for minimally invasive surgery, designed to prepare "surgeons of the future," achieved record high enrollment in 2011. London Health Sciences Centre says enrollment has nearly tripled since 2008.
One of the best-designed intensive care units (ICUs) in the world is the one at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, says the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the largest critical care professional body in North America.
Babies born at very low birth weight are more likely to have memory and attention problems when they become adults than babies born at a low to normal weight, according to one of the first studies to look at preterm babies and executive functioning.
A family doctor has written a book about his life as a rural medicine practitioner and it has "become a runaway bestseller on the Sunshine Coast," according to the community paper, the Coast Reporter.
A team of healthcare professionals at North York General Hospital Seniors’ Health Centre has developed a specialized program that's having a profoundly positive impact on the lives of people with Parkinson’s Disease.
