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A new report released today by the Health Council of Canada called for intensified efforts at reform across five key areas in order to keep pace with the country’s changing health care needs

After years of talk about the benefits and challenges of implementing e-prescribing in Canada, it looks like it could finally become a reality in 2015.

CALGARY | Wait times in the Canadian healthcare system have been manufactured by out-of-date and technically corrupt approaches to capacity management and planning. That's the conclusion of "Full House," the feature article of the latest Six Sigma Forum, a peer-reviewed publication of The American Society for Quality.

27% death rate seen in Chinese study ‘may be underestimate’

The New York Times reviews a new anthology of essays by 21 nurses called, “I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse.”

Check out our review of recent healthcare stories in the media - Top Story: Canada’s Greenest Hospital. Read this and

I wrote in Sunday’s Globe about nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who played a very private but critical role in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing: They cared for gravely wounded suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a heavily-guarded ICU, nursing him back to health.

Throughout Europe, the nursing profession is rapidly losing its appeal. An aging workforce and dwindling student enrollment in nursing schools are precipitating a looming nursing crisis.