Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

An optometrist reviews the various claims and weighs the evidence for benefits and harms.

A survey launched by the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists on Nov. 29 is part of a bigger project to establish minimum staffing levels in community pharmacies.

The study involved more than one million adult patients who had 25 common elective and emergency surgeries between 2007 and 2019.

Do you have specific strategies in place to handle poor patient behaviour?

‘When we have high levels of homelessness and not enough shelter beds for people . . . the emergency department is the shelter of last resort. It’s the warming centre of last resort.’

Liposunction and breast augmentation top the list for most common surgeries.

Only 6.4 meals per week are cooked at home worldwide in 2021.

Outside scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced that the recent spike in respiratory illnesses in China signaled the start of a new global outbreak.