Healthcare

UBC researchers uncovered a compound that could prevent blood clots without increasing the risk of bleeding.

Dr. Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.

In this guest post, The Canadian Council on Continuing Education in Pharmacy shares eight key questions to assess the quality of continuing education programs.

There’s probably nothing more contentious in health than nutrition and dieting. Part of this is due to the lack of certainty in nutrition science.

RSV fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall and winter, and the virus struck earlier than usual and especially hard in the U.S. this past year.

Other than recruiting more doctors, the premiers says the province has been working to increase access to primary care through mobile clinics, virtual care, urgent treatment centres and pharmacy clinics.

B.C. pharmacists gained the ability to administer more vaccines and renew or adjust prescriptions for a wider range of drugs, with further changes on the way.

B.C. pharmacists gained the ability to administer more vaccines and renew or adjust prescriptions for a wider range of drugs, with further changes on the way.