Healthcare

You are charged with sexual abuse – and then more patients come out of the woodwork. What do you do when the college wants to call them as witnesses?

A new survey found that most Canadians see expanded scope of practice for pharmacists as a way to improve access to care.

Quebec doctors, how are you doing? I understand if you refuse to speak out because you'll be targeted afterward. However, I hear that so many of you applied for a New Brunswick medical license that the website crashed.

Invictus Pharmacy in the U.S. will now accept cryptocurrency as payment.

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Switzerland-based Novartis released results of what it called a next-generation treatment. A study of its experimental drug in 12 African countries found it works well against the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria and seems to block spread.

Among the issues highlighted in the report are that many patients don’t feel heard; the need to improve discharge protocols in emergency rooms; use of force for challenging behaviours; and a lack of trauma-informed obstetrical/gynecological care.

New research is raising the prospect of treatments that might do more than tamp down symptoms.