Best Practices

A quality assurance program for breast cancer testing, developed and led in British Columbia, has delivered “near perfect” results on a national level, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Pathology.

KINGSTON, Ont. | American doctors’ fears that converting to a “Canadian-style” health care system will hurt their incomes are unfounded, says a Canadian researcher who looked at income patterns of doctors in the two countries.

One drawback is shorter time to a patient's first vascular access intervention

Oral MS treatment yields 'exciting' trial results

But study shows risk was better than expected-so expanded-criteria organs might be 'only marginally worse' than standard

When multiple sclerosis patients also have comorbid diabetes, their disability scores tend to be greater than those of MS patients who do not have the disease.

But oral therapy associated with more frequent adverse events

The new drug safinamide might have some impact in preventing the involuntary movements characteristic of Parkinson's disease. However, it did not perform any better than placebo over a two-year period.