Healthcare

British Columbia’s provincial automotive insurance company is set to pay higher fees to doctors in the province completing paperwork after advocacy by Doctors of BC.

Colleges of physicians and surgeons also track kind words. Here’s the breakdown by province.

‘We know that there's this healthcare crisis, and it's amplified in rural communities, and so I don't think we have the time to wait for someone else to do this work,’ the society’s past president said.

Regardless of colour, drinking a glass of wine daily increases risk of developing cancer by 5%.

Many patients feel they are too young to be affected by perimenopause or feel unprepared for this phase, researchers find.

At this year’s Rural and Remote Conference in Winnipeg, Dr. Mark Saul discussed the cognitive biases that can lead to the wrong diagnosis or the wrong medication being administered.

As a family physician and group facilitator, I’ve witnessed growing interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy — both in the clinical community and public discourse. Here are some important and unexpected things I've learned.

Recent developments in the U.S., particularly new whistleblower policies related to transgender youth care, have raised concern about the possible impact on Canadian healthcare professionals like myself.