Public Health

A Toronto team of doctors is studying the feasibility of pre-hospital critical care teams

Primary care providers in P.E.I. get specialist input sooner to streamline a patient’s treatment and reduce number of in-person specialist consults

Hospital-at-home programs have yet to take off in Canada, though they have many benefits, especially for certain kinds of patients.

Provincial premiers have called for a meeting with Trudeau for more than a year to discuss their demand that the federal government pay a larger share of healthcare costs.

A new partnership between The University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health will study how pharmacists can contribute to the healthcare system. The research is funded for the next two years by a $3 million donation from Shoppers Drug Mart. 

Pathogens causing babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever among those found.

A new rule change allows pharmacists to prescribe compounded pediatric acetaminophen products, which can then be created at compounding pharmacies. 

Dr. Sohail Ghandi hopes the powers that be finally realize that you can't fix family medicine—or the healthcare system—until you fix digital health.