New Canadian guidelines for prevention and treatment of Zika virus infectionInclude recommendations for travel, preventing sexual transmission and patient evaluation. B.C. Health Minister predicts record drug overdose deaths this yearSays last month's public-health emergency declaraction has failed to slow problem thus far. Health Canada proposes allowing doctors to use heroin to treat opioid addiction Regulatory change aimed at patients who do not respond to treatments like methadone. Politicians are major barrier to health-care reform: Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership delegates Young family doctors faced with new patient-quota rules in Quebec Quebec minister finally responds to pharmacists It took a threat of legal action, but Dr. Barrette finally came through with an eleventh-hour response to the contractual demands of the province's pharmacists. Alberta says life saving fentanyl antidote available without prescription Just over half of province's pharmacies taking part in program thus far. Talk of doctor shortage boils over in Nova Scotia legislature Dr. Trina Larsen Soles wins Doctors of BC presidency Press Review - May 13, 2016 First Previous 2188 2189 2190 2191 2192 Next Last