A new Health Quality Council report on patients' experiences in Saskatchewan emergency departments found that not all ERs in the province are created equally.
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.
A study said to be the largest to investigate the tolerability of tamoxifen in male breast cancer patients has shown that many men stop taking the drug early because of side-effects.
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.