A new Health Quality Council report on patients' experiences in Saskatchewan emergency departments found that not all ERs in the province are created equally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
