Guidelines

Premier Tim Houston announced Tuesday that a new Halifax-based clinic will assess the skills of international medical graduates while the foreign recruits provide primary care to about 2,500 patients.

Systematic review and meta-analysis has assessed the effectiveness of bright light therapy as an adjunctive treatment for nonseasonal depressive disorders.

New study results can help physicians manage patient expectations on outcomes of endometrial ablation.

The province is spending nearly $20 million to increase the availability of appointments and train additional staff.

Pharmacy can learn from a world-class Finnish education system by bringing more prestige, calibre and preparedness to our managers. We can also creatively find ways to make the job more fun and autonomous. We can also shift to treating our lowest skilled staff to their potential instead of their current status quo.

When I graduated as a pharmacist, the horizon that awaited me was to start working in the community pharmacy and improve the healthcare model, going from a model centred on the product, to a model centred on the person and on professional pharmaceutical services assistance.

More than 65 million people are affective by chronic hives, but researchers say the condition is often underdiagnosed.

A case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns the syndrome most associated with 18th-century seafaring persists in modern times.