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More MRI, CT scans being completed than before pandemic: Alberta Health Services
The province says it is spending an extra $11 million this year to reduce wait times for scans, on top of a $33-million increase from last year.
'Disproportionate, unfair' and speculative: Professions tribunal overturns college ruling
Dr. Diana Craciunescu committed a serious ethical breach when she failed to provide adequate care to an elderly patient with cerebral bleeding, ruled Quebec's Tribunal des professions. But banning her for life from emergency medicine was not the right call.

Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan launches medicine take-back campaign to reduce suicides

Dangers of unused medications are highlighted in new public awareness campaign
ParticipAction gives kids and youth a D for activity, F for screen time

The report's 15th edition is based on data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, when play dates, sports activities and gym classes ground to a sudden halt for many kids.
Common medication mistakes to avoid with virtual primary care

Drugs delivered to the wrong person, years-old prescriptions accidentally filled, and confusion over a tapering regimen that sent a patient to hospital are among the incidents highlighted in The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada's report on medication safety in virtual care.
RBC acquires medical billing firm MDBilling.ca, financial terms not disclosed

MDBilling.ca services physicians in Ontario and British Columbia.
Top doc, top dollars: 47% raise puts Manitoba's public health chief on top of the pay heap

Dr. Brent Roussin's recent salary bump of almost $203,00—for a total of $634,303 between April 2021 and March 2022—'looks terrible' in light of Manitoba's dismal performance during COVID, said ethicist Arthur Schafer.
A teen's 30-hour ordeal: A ruptured appendix, two ERs and not a single available ambulance

'Her fever was really high. Her heart rate was over 140. She was in agony,' the girl's mother recounted the nightmare that started in an Edmonton walk-in and took them through the clogged emergency departments of two hospitals.
COVID-19 burden to fall on primary care, Ontario needs new approach: science table

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table released three briefs that focused on the response to the pandemic by family doctors and nurses.
ALS drug wins FDA approval despite questionable data

More MRI, CT scans being completed than before pandemic: Alberta Health Services

'Disproportionate, unfair' and speculative: Professions tribunal overturns college ruling

Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan launches medicine take-back campaign to reduce suicides

ParticipAction gives kids and youth a D for activity, F for screen time

Common medication mistakes to avoid with virtual primary care

RBC acquires medical billing firm MDBilling.ca, financial terms not disclosed

Top doc, top dollars: 47% raise puts Manitoba's public health chief on top of the pay heap

A teen's 30-hour ordeal: A ruptured appendix, two ERs and not a single available ambulance

COVID-19 burden to fall on primary care, Ontario needs new approach: science table

ALS drug wins FDA approval despite questionable data

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