A new Health Quality Council report on patients' experiences in Saskatchewan emergency departments found that not all ERs in the province are created equally.
Using an e-health record to check up on your spouse's ex: probably not what health officials in Alberta had in mind when they took patients' records into the virtual world. But an investigation by Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work revealed that an Edmonton ER physician did just that.
Dr. Graham Sher, chief executive officer of Canadian Blood Services, has said enough with the fear-mongering about the planned move of a regional blood-processing facility from New Brunswick to Halifax.
A family doctor has written a book about his life as a rural medicine practitioner and it has "become a runaway bestseller on the Sunshine Coast," according to the community paper, the Coast Reporter.
Giving intermittent high doses of an inhaled steroid at the first sign of a respiratory infection is as effective at preventing wheezing episodes as daily low doses of an inhaled corticosteroid in preschool-aged children who have recurrent wheezing and are at risk for developing asthma.
