The federal government’s failure to release $500 million in promised funding has slowed the next phase of the multibillion-dollar national effort to implement electronic health records (EHRs), says Canada Health …
According to an executive with the American health care giant Kaiser Permanente, electronic health records can dramatically improve quality of care and patient outcomes. But the principal investigator of a series …
A powerful alliance of builders, bureaucrats and bankers is quietly sliding an entirely new foundation across some of the Canadian economy’s most important terrain. “There’s no magic in it,” says …
Research indicates that carbapenum-resistant bacteria — which represent a disastrous threat for clinicians — is now prevalent in South Asia and moving into Europe and North America in the same …
When the 2010 Olympic Games put Vancouver firmly on the world sports stage, the spotlight will also be on the region’s First Nations, or Native Americans. They are gaining increasing …
As the United States Congress scrambles to iron the kinks out of its health reform legislation, America’s two most influential medical associations remain deeply divided over the merits of changes …
New research reveals that a widely used class of agricultural pesticides is the likely culprit behind the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. Worse still: Canada continues to market …
Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …
The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.