Understanding the risks: vaping and heart disease. Stay informed about the latest research on the long-term health effects of ...

Symptoms of anxiety and depression associated with a fear of cancer recurrence can cause real distress in an understudied ...

Healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare professionals, encounter many different scenarios during a typical shift; this often involves the challenge ...

Fewer patients with coronary artery disease are requiring open heart surgery with the recent introduction of a minimally-invasive technique to bypass severely blocked arteries. Dr. Minh Vo, a newly ...

On far right, Susan Forde, Betty Powell and Jane Terhaerdt are among the first patients in Canada to have benefitted from the Senographe Pristina mammography unit. With them is radiologist Dr. Anat ...

Despite spending more on health care than most other developed countries with universal coverage, Canada has a relatively short supply of doctors and hospital beds—and the longest wait times, finds a ...

: Haytham Sharar, a nurse practitioner in the Heart Failure Clinic, follows up by phone with a discharged patient referred to him after remote monitoring by a Community Care Access Centre nurse.

Imagine you’re a third-year college student in an interior design program and you’ve just completed six weeks of observing how long-term care residents with dementia interact with their living space.

If the person sitting beside you suddenly developed #chest pain, how would you know if they were having a #heart attack? What if it was indigestion? Or muscle pain? Or even pneumonia? Health care ...

Heart disease is the second leading cause of death in Canada. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System, about 1 in 12 Canadians aged 20 or over ...

Each year in Canada, more than 200,000 patients catch a hospital-acquired infection, and 8,000 patients die as a result. Hospital-acquired infections, also called “nosocomial infections” or “health ...