Emergency medicine

Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump told pregnant women not to take Tylenol as he promoted unproven ties between the fever reducer and autism and touted an old generic drug as a treatment for the developmental condition.

New guidelines, a meta-analysis and a clinical review shed light on the surgery versus nonoperative management debate.

The president of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors want to participate but there are issues to be worked out including over pay, billing, liability and paperwork.

Dr. Alexis Crabtree, medical lead for harm reduction and substance use services at the BCCDC, said they are ‘worried especially’ about metatodomine after the recent spike in 911 calls.

Stories of exceedingly long wait times at Alberta hospitals have emerged since 44-year-old Prashant Sreekumar died after waiting nearly eight hours in an Edmonton emergency department with chest pain in late December.

Emergency Health Services says the children were in a pool in the town of Canmore, about 100 kilometres west of Calgary.

Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life. But are these characters performing it correctly?

Those leading the program say it not only reduced ER visits significantly, but also lowered the length of those that did occur.