With the province closing its clinics dedicated to treating people with long COVID, the story of Alberta’s innovative rural outreach program appears destined to remain incomplete.
There are real and historic reasons for governments to ban medical procedures, treatments or public behaviours relating to our collective health. But how is that decided?
Section 11 of B.C.’s Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act allows the province to bring an action against opioid manufacturers and distributors on behalf of multiple governments.
I'm sitting on the couch completing the charts I've dragged home from the office. Age 14, my daughter Emma confronts me with the eyeroll and contemptuous drawl of the young teenager. “Don’t think I’m ever going to be a doctor, Mom!”
The government plans regulatory changes to allow nurse practitioners to order and apply a defibrillator, order and apply a cardiac pacemaker, and order and perform electrocoagulation, a process to treat skin conditions and lesions.
