Vitalité’s latest quarterly report shows it has a critical shortage of pathologists in several of its health zones.…
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Many people with heart failure end up back in hospital with persistent symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath from fluid in the lungs and swelling in the abdomen and legs. The clinical trial, called VICTORY-HF, involves a remote monitoring…
In B.C., only four surgeons do all the transplants at two Vancouver hospitals. Kidneys that can’t be used are getting shipped to other provinces. BC Transplant, the provincial agency responsible for organ transplants, said 56 kidneys were sent…
The Learn and Stay Grant program at CTS Canadian Career College sees the government paying tuition for nursing and paramedic students, as well as the cost of books and other…
Horizon Health Network is exploring bringing in internationally-trained nurses or travel nurses to get the service back up and running. The staffing shortage is specifically impacting RNs in the department, due to a combination of short and…
After announcing the noona app launch over a year ago, cancer patients in the province can now use it to access appointment schedules, reminders and…
The province, which is dealing with a chronic shortage of healthcare staff, will pay for 25 continuing care assistants (CCAs) to complete a two-and-a-half year practical nursing diploma at NSCC. CCAs that worked in LTC for at least two years will…
Each year, the program’s expected to detect cancer in as many as 9,000 people, deliver almost one million scans and provide treatment earlier. People aged 55 to 74 with a GP record including a history of smoking will be assessed and invited for…
A survey found:
All Canadian jurisdictions should routinely collect data on racial and Indigenous identity to address inequities in healthcare and the best way to do that is during the health card application or renewal process, a group of experts says. Black…
The University of Ottawa study found 18% of the participants between the ages of 18 to 39 had a 20% to 30% loss in kidney function, which is associated with a 1.4-fold increase in…
The redeveloped clinic offers an advanced plastic surgery procedure room, which is the first of its kind in Canada. This procedure room will allow 85% of plastic surgery trauma patients, who would’ve previously needed one of the centre's main…
The study found cases are expected to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050 mostly because there’s no mitigation strategy to tackle or reduce…
The Newcomer Health Hub (NHH) provides evidence-based, culturally-specific health information for newcomers and refugees. It also educates community members and frontline healthcare workers on…
The Care Coordination Centre at the QEII Health Sciences Centre gives healthcare teams information on bed availability, the status of diagnostic tests and procedures, wait lists, ambulance offloads and patient transfers. The provincial government…
The study showed that 4.7% of people who used cannabis in the past year were at risk of addiction. StatCan found several factors contributed to a cannabis user's increased risk of dependence, including being male, between the ages of 18 and 24,…