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Over the course of the program, project participants delivered more than 26,000 patient encounters to more than 10,000 patients.

Pharmacists in Saskatchewan have become the first in Canada to receive provincially funded minor ailment assessment fees.

A Canadian doctor bilked America’s health-care program of more than $375-million – the largest-ever scheme to defraud the U.S. Medicare system – according to senior justice officials.

Faced with soaring health care costs and shrinking Medicare and Medicaid financing, nursing home operators are closing some facilities and embracing home care.

In an op-ed piece, Patricia Dennehy says nurse practitioners are the key to primary care reform stateside:

Move could mean some seniors will pay as much as $6,000 a month for care.

It’s a common practice, but when researchers offer money as an incentive for healthy volunteers to enroll in research studies, does that amount to coercion or undue inducement to participate in research?

Move follows recommendation from the Atlantic Common Drug Review.