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While a B.C. judge ruled Dr. Herbert C.Y. Chang was negligent, she found him not liable for the patient's 'bleak' prognosis.

Pharmacists and doctors are in a battle over new plans to allow some pharmacists in Australia to diagnose 23 diseases—including heart failure, type 2 diabetes and asthma.

Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, chief medical officer of health, told reporters today that high vaccination rates have helped make it possible to gradually remove the remaining public health measures.

New opportunities for expanded care have raised the profile—and importance—of community pharmacists. But at what cost?

Opportunistic salpingectomy refers to using the occasion of when a patient is already undergoing a hysterectomy, taking the chance to also remove the fallopian tubes, or as an alternative to tubal ligation.

Going forward the word 'chief' will be replaced with the word 'corporate.'

The Medical Post's sister magazine in Quebec recently examined the taboo subject of healthcare workers’ mistakes. Here is the final installment of the five-part series.

Out of shame or fear of damaging their careers, doctors do not easily talk about the professional mistakes they make. The start of a five-part series by the Medical Post’s sister brand in Quebec, Profession Santé.