Patient Lifestyle

Just how much waste do hospitals produce? At Collingwood General and Marine Hospital—a relatively small hospital with only 84 beds—23 tonnes of material end up as waste each month.

Dr. Alice Briggs turns 91 in August but this internal medicine specialist and allergist/immunologist has no intention of laying down her stethoscope anytime soon.

The British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, has asked for a 35% pay rise to bring junior doctors’ pay back to 2008 levels once inflation is taken into account.

The manufacturer, Ireland-based Perrigo, won’t start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales.

Study suggests high intensity interval training produces similar physiological changes as moderate intensity exercise in people who are pregnant.

It's essential for healthcare workers to better understand how and why some people may go down the path of addiction.

In the daily duties of practising pharmacy, we need to say no. As much as we have a distaste for confrontation and want to help everyone in our sight, we are organically the gatekeeper for many requests that come through the pharmacy.

Team-based care has gone prime time as the future of primary care, but we can't afford to phase out solo doctors in the process.