Healthcare

Antiviral therapy still benefits patients with normal liver enzymes

Increased “scope of practice” for advanced practice nurse practitioners is not associated with lower wages for primary care physicians.

Nurse practitioners will have to pick up the slack beginning in 2014, if the Supreme Court allows President Barack Obama’s healthcare law to add at least 30 million people to U.S. practices.

Mayo Clinic approach uses cognitive-behavioural therapy, exercise, other modalities

A cross-Canada team of researchers is learning how to improve the lives of children with osteoporosis caused by steroid treatment for leukemia and other diseases

Academic health centres can be built in a way that will facilitate the translation of new knowledge into improved patient care. In Montreal, that idea is taking shape on a grand scale

The New Brunswick Pharmacists’ Association is speaking up about the financial impact of the province’s new generic pricing policy.