Healthcare

Health Minister Josie Osborne says people too often put off buying hearing aids because of costs and other barriers, adding the change will help more people recognize hearing changes and get help earlier.

A parliamentary committee is calling on the federal government to indefinitely exclude people with mental illness from becoming eligible for medical assistance in dying, after a process that some of the committee's members decried as flawed and biased.

The two-year extension preserves existing generic drug pricing measures and is intended to help maintain predictable prices for public drug plans across Canada.

In his fax message, Dr. Ian Cowan took issue with the pharmacy providing services to members of a homeless encampment, calling them ‘drug-addicted campers.’

The new semaglutide products are priced at roughly one-third the cost of brand-name Ozempic and will be covered for eligible patients with Type 2 diabetes.

I was in toxicology class. The professor was teaching about medicines with narrow therapeutic index (NTI). I can still hear her voice as she described them . . .

Study evaluates 25-year (1999–2023) trends in dietary supplement use among U.S. adults.

Primary Health Minister Justin Wright says the government has signed a new three-year funding agreement with pharmacists, and as part of the deal Alberta is increasing dispensing fees for the first time in a decade.