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TORONTO | Access to orphan drugs – pharmaceuticals developed specifically to treat very rare medical conditions – has been more challenging for Canadians than patients in most other developed countries.

MONTREAL | The obsession with reducing public spending on prescription drugs, which takes the form of constantly falling price caps, bulk purchasing strategies and reimbursement restrictions, entails numerous unintended consequences, especially for the health of Canadians, according to a new study from the Montreal Economic Institute.

CPhA national conference points to change

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Trends this quarter: Cost-cutting, investing to improve system efficiencies, moving care into the community, and inter-professional collaboration

TORONTO | Women’s College Hospital celebrated the unveiling of a new ambulatory-care facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

Dr. Laurie Morrison developed a clinical decision rule for paramedics that's now being used in emergency care around the world

His coffee tasted a little sweeter than he liked it. So when a Texas doctor asked his lover, also a physician, why his black coffee had an interesting flavour, she responded that he should simply drink up. Then she poured him another cup. Or so go the allegations in the case of a top cancer physician and researcher, who is suspected of poisoning a colleague and romantic flame.