TORONTO | The Ontario Ministry of Labour says it has launched a two-month blitz enforcing the Occuptional Health and Safety Act and its regulations at healthcare workplaces across the province.
Patients who had access to their physicians’ notes had better medication adherence and felt more in control of their own health, a new study has found.
As drug addiction took a greater and greater hold on their lives, nurses Genevieve Wright and Mona Helmer tapped into a ready supply to feed their habits, stealing narcotics from the Alberta hospitals where they worked.
As Canada’s health ministers gathered in Halifax this week to talk about the progress on health care, the average Canadian could be excused for wanting to shrug and turn away. Enter Canada’s registered nurses.
An Ontario man whose mother died from a heart attack after taking a popular anti-depressant believes she would still be alive if she'd been warned about the drug’s known dangers.