Healthcare

Stakeholders told Health Canada their ideas ranging from a stronger domestic market and better website materials to tracking drugs with AI and adding punishments around not reporting.

Given the increasingly widespread use of antidepressants, researchers believe more attention should be paid to the risks for hospitalized patients.

Assessment tool for those 65+ informs care and results in better outcomes for patients—but they are not used nearly enough

AHS has had a tumultuous end to its year off the back of announcements from the Alberta premier’s office about major overhaul coming to the healthcare system.

The Ontario Pharmacists Association has come out against the new fee, calling it a shift towards ‘U.S. PBM-style operations and business practices into the Canadian market.’

Data shared last week shows the number of new reported HIV cases more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, to 310 from 141.

The B.C. Coroners Service had been ‘forever altered’ by the public health emergency that continued to take the lives of people of all ages across the province, including more than 2,000 deaths so far this year, Lapointe said.

As changes to how we screen for human papillomavirus are on the horizon, some awkward questions from patients may be heading your way.