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Chau Vien Linh Ngo should have clarified the unfamiliar abbreviations with the prescribing physician. Instead she erroneously dispensed a double dose of antibiotics to a patient undergoing hemodialysis, according to the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.

Allison Holthoff died New Year's Eve after she was taken to the emergency room at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst, N.S.

Initial reports about the outage sparked concerns about a possible cybersecurity breach after Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children suffered a ransomware attack last month.

The UHN outage come after the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto issued a “code grey” last month when a ransomware attack affected its operations.

Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph dubbed the latest subvariant Kraken, the name of a Scandinavian mythological sea creature.

A Q&A with Dr. Josh Greggain, the new president of Doctors of BC, on the rollout of the new FP longitudinal care payment model and ensuring the burden of forms on office-based specialists is examined too.

Health Minister Adrian Dix said Friday they've been coping with an unprecedented increase in demand in the healthcare system.

A joint statement Saturday from the Health Employers Association of B.C. and the Ambulance Paramedics and Ambulance Dispatchers Bargaining Association says the tentative deal was reached with the assistance of mediator Vince Ready.