Healthcare

Dr. Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.

There’s probably nothing more contentious in health than nutrition and dieting. Part of this is due to the lack of certainty in nutrition science.

RSV fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall and winter, and the virus struck earlier than usual and especially hard in the U.S. this past year.

Other than recruiting more doctors, the premiers says the province has been working to increase access to primary care through mobile clinics, virtual care, urgent treatment centres and pharmacy clinics.

B.C. pharmacists gained the ability to administer more vaccines and renew or adjust prescriptions for a wider range of drugs, with further changes on the way.

B.C. pharmacists gained the ability to administer more vaccines and renew or adjust prescriptions for a wider range of drugs, with further changes on the way.

Morenike Eniola Olaosebikan was hailed as a hero last year when her KemNet online platform connecting prescribers to compounding pharmacists eased the shortage of children's fever and pain medication. Now she's on a bigger, more ambitious mission.

When asked to close their eyes and imagine a sunset, most people can bring to mind an image of the sun setting on the horizon. But recent research has found that some people don’t experience mental imagery at all.