Patient Compliance

The plan will cover methods including birth control pills and intrauterine devices and cost an estimated $11 million a year.

Because any physician or nurse practitioner in Alberta can prescribe Mifegymiso, the medication has helped eliminate geographic barriers to services for patients in rural and remote communities.

Lidocaine spray or gel used as a local anesthetic and other pain treatments—think ibuprofen or an injection of an anesthetic—are safe for most patients and can be effective, gynecologists say.

Pharmacy residents can extend access to care for underserved patients as part of an interdisciplinary diabetes management clinic.

Dr. Sohail Gandhi sees evidence that Ontario’s provincial government does not want to work with doctors.

Educators can challenge students without resorting to intimidation, wrote the authors of an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

New practice recommendations from U.S. CDC about contraception note use of lidocaine during IUD insertion—and are an important reminder for Canadian docs about how much this procedure can hurt.

The fake claims were made to Quebec's drug insurance plan.