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Compensation, merit pay rose 2.3 per cent over the last 12 months.

ith a child poverty rate of 13.3 per cent, Canada ranks 24th out of 35 industrialized nations.

Unionized nurses figure significantly among those making $100,000 or more as longtime staff move up job scale.

Budget tightening has cut into the number of nursing graduates hired into Capital Health’s gradually aging nurse workforce, says the health authority’s CEO.

Ontario cardiologists are saying the fee cuts imposed by the provincial government on doctors are going to force them to shut down.

Executives in healthcare saw the largest increases in executive pay among all industries in the United States in 2011, according to a Hay Group CEO compensation survey released Monday and published in the Wall Street Journal.

More specialists staying in province, study finds

The federal government is making clinical research an even bigger priority by doubling its investment in this area in a renewed partnership with Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D).