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.
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 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.
“Studies of the fat-burning properties of raspberry ketones have only been done on mice, in the laboratory .... There does not appear to be any clinical evidence that raspberry ketones confer weight loss benefits to humans.”
Joanna Ford, 46, sentenced to one year in a provincial jail after pleading guilty to bilking a Health Canada program for First Nations communities of more than $300,000 over two years.
