Beginning on Tuesday, July 7 at 5:30 a.m. PT, BC nurses will escalate job action with picket line at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), while maintaining essential service levels to protect patient ...

1. A nationally notifiable disease in Canada — In Canada, 4 to 5 cases are confirmed every year and must be reported. These are usually acquired from rodents in agricultural settings in Manitoba, ...

• AI is improving healthcare efficiency by reducing physician burnout, streamlining documentation and enhancing patient care through tools such as medical scribes and AI-assisted treatment planning. • ...

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Providence Therapeutics had to find creative workarounds to test its novel protocol for creating personalized cancer treatments. Here, CEO Brad Sorensen walks through what led the Canadian company to ...

• The Royal’s Research Institute is studying whether music and movement can improve mental well-being in older adults and become a prescribed treatment alongside traditional mental health care. • ...

What began as a narrowly framed end-of-life exception evolved into a system that places disability at the centre of eligibility debates. In an open letter to the Prime Minister and federal Ministers ...

• A major international study led by Scarborough Health Network found that CPAP, high-flow nasal cannula and bilevel non-invasive ventilation can reduce the need for invasive ventilation in critically ...

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with and beyond cancer have unique needs and perspectives that clinicians should be aware of when providing health care. A practice article in CMAJ (Canadian ...

The Women in Midlife Brain Health and Stroke Prevention team, led by Dr. Aleksandra Pikula, centre left, operates a first-of-its-kind program for patients in the menopausal transition at the Jay and ...

• VCHRI researcher Dr. Jason Andrade’s work is the first to prove the efficacy of catheter ablation as an initial treatment for patients with advanced forms of AFib. • His new research compared two ...

Pet therapy visits benefit residents and staff in long-term care settings, according to new research from the University of Alberta’s Brittany DeGraves. (Photo: Getty Images) Nursing researcher ...