A partnership with the Fredericton Cataract Surgical Centre will result in thousands more Medicare-covered cataract surgeries offered each year. The surgical centre has the capacity to complete over 3,200 surgeries annually and completed over 100 in
Kelly Lamrock made those remarks in the wake of a coroner’s inquest into the 2021 suicide of a Fredericton teen. The jury made nine recommendations to ensure similar deaths can be avoided in the future. The recommendations centred on ensuring
Across the country, arthritis patients are falling victim to gaps in access to care - something experts in the Maritimes are calling a major barrier to research and damage prevention. One in five Canadians suffer from arthritis and in the Maritimes
The Nova Scotia Collaborative Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Clinic uses the fecal calprotectin test to diagnose IBD or distinguish between IBD and IBS. Doctors say this approach allows for better disease management and improves patient outcomes. A
A Mood Disorders Society of Canada study says Canadians who depend on public drug plans are especially disadvantaged. This study found 42% of those surveyed rely on a public drug plan, a 3% increase since 2015. Those patients can’t get access to
A Senate report recommends Ottawa conduct research into how psychedelics can assist veterans suffering from PTSD. The report states Canada’s falling behind other countries, such as the U.S. and Australia, that already began studying how psychedelics
Amazon hired a nurse practitioner to facilitate cancer screening for the growing number of Ottawa-area residents who don’t have a regular primary-care provider. A study found 73.1% of Ont. patients with doctors were up to date on their colorectal
Providing the test as a standard part of care could save $956 million over 20 years for the healthcare system in B.C. alone. More than 35 antidepressants are available in Canada but nearly half of patients don’t respond to the first medication they
The province hasn't ironed out the details of the updated funding model but the intention is for nurse practitioners (NP) to be allowed to take on patients at their own clinics sometime next year. Unlike a physician's fee-for-service model, the
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton was the first healthcare institution to take part in the Project AMPLIFI pilot project in 2020, designed to replace fax machines for clinical data transfer between hospitals and LTC homes with an electronic method