Healthcare

SAINT JOHN, N.B. | The Horizon Health Network in Saint John, N.B. has barred a local gastroenterologist from seeing female patients following a slew of sexual assault charges.

Man who stole cancer drugs to sell on the “grey market” was also sentenced to two years in prison, 10 years probation.

Quebec Federation of General Practitioners seeks to obtain “the power, for all general practitioners, to sell medications they prescribe to their patients.”

HAMILTON, ONT. | A full-day conference on the use of robotics in surgery will be conducted by the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, on April 6, 2013.

GSK has made the move, but will other pharma giants follow?

QUEBEC CITY | New provincial building codes and the threat of seismic activity along the biggest fault line in eastern Canada have triggered major infrastructure spending at three Quebec hospitals.

Nearly 10 years after it started processing license applications for NHPs, Health Canada says it's all caught up and vows to avoid another approval logjam.

But retailers that employ both women and men must erect barriers to separate sexes while they work.