Healthcare

As a physician with a shared cultural background, Dr. Jabir Jassam found that building trust with such youths is essential.

Regular physical activity is critical to improving health at any age, including people in their 80s and 90s—and doctors should be prescribing it more often to their oldest patients, a new paper published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says.

The head of a Crown corporation that funded the care of a B.C. woman with Down syndrome who died of starvation said the organization ‘failed her,’ after an inquest jury ruled the death a homicide and called for better pay for home carers of adults with developmental disabilities.

The Canadian Pediatric Society provides updated evidence-based advice as incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome is rising.

A new study sheds light on the health and economic impacts of new clinical pharmacy activities and the persistent obstacles to their expansion.

The judge ruled that one of the doctors had endured an “aggressive assault” on his reputation during the course of the seven-week trial.

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Chief executive Melanie Fraser says the Island’s emergency departments and acute-care units have been straining under a heavy workload for weeks.