Even though his organs were too damaged to donate, a young Nova Scotia man with rare cancer sought to donate his tissues. But his ‘homosexual status’ on his medical records categorized him as a ‘high-risk’ donor.
NDP health critic Don Davies is accusing the minister of halting the implementation of a new rule intended to lower the cost of drugs at the behest of drug companies that have resisted the change.
The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients.
A British Columbia company offering health services to patients who pay annual fees starting at $4,650 has agreed to modify its policies, averting a court challenge over public healthcare, says the province’s health minister.
Michelle Logeot refers to the biggest health scare of her life as 'the event,' the type she does not want other women to experience when doctors misdiagnose them or dismiss symptoms of a potentially deadly heart attack.
Currently in its third reading, Bill 60, would allow the appointment of directors to regulate for-profit clinics while hospitals could approve the outsourcing of specific surgeries and diagnostic procedures to these private medical facilities.
