When an airplane crashes, investigators scramble to locate the black box so they can find
out what was happening in the aircraft before the incident. An advance on that technology is …

Dr. Jessica Dunkley is currently completing her residency in dermatology at the University of
British Columbia. Like most doctors-in-training in this country, she completed her …

In about a two-month period, paramedics assigned to patients in Nova Scotia nursing homes
treated 135 senior citizens. Of those, 98 were treated and released on site; 26 received a “…

When Canada opened its doors to more than 25 000 Syrian refugees, their welcome to a
new home included access to health care. Living up to that promise has put serious demands …

“I was stunned to hear oxycodone is the number 1 street drug in Cape Breton,” says Dr.
Richard MacLachlan, head of the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University.“We …

Nova Scotia is the first jurisdiction in Canada to officially ban the use of electronic monitoring
for forensic mental health patients. The announcement follows a government investigation …

Under Nova Scotia's new “Fair Drug Pricing Act,” the province's pharmacare program will
pay just 45% of the cost of a brand drug for an equivalent generic. Over the next year, the …

San Francisco has been scandalized—by a health awareness campaign. The city, which
barely flinched when the local zoo offered $40 “viewings” of mating animals on Valentine’s Day…

As the British Medical Journal was announcing in early August that its free online-access
policy will end in 2005 (CMAJ 2003; 169 [6]: 590), a journal built entirely upon the open-access …

There's a dangerous new game being played out in the locker rooms of hockey rinks and
arenas across North America. Although most coaches, parents and certainly most doctors have …