Best Practices

As patients reach the end of their lives, there is one question doctors can ask that may help them offer more comfort than any other.

TORONTO | A new study shows that anesthesiologists have a lower rate of discipline compared to other specialists.

CALGARY | Just as there's no free lunch, there's no free healthcare, even in Canada. A typical Canadian family with two parents and two children will pay $11,320 in taxes for public health care insurance in 2013, according to the Fraser Institute.

It is likely financial incentives drove increases in laparoscopic surgery, but with minimal patient benefits, a new McMaster University study has found.

Review finds “excess significance” in animal studies; may explain why findings don’t hold up in human trials

A recent study led by Dr. David Reuben, director of geriatrics at UCLA, and published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society shows that patients co-managed by a nurse practioner and a primary care physician together were more likely to receive the recommended care than those seen by a doctor working independently.

Rules need to be enforced more strictly, or players need help adapting, says Toronto surgeon

New mothers unable to meet recommendations