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Sometimes you can’t wait wait until 9am or Monday morning to see a doctor or access health care. Here are your options.
Many veterans struggle with addiction, mental health conditions and homelessness after military service. Veterans Treatment Courts aim to help – but they need stable funding to do so.
Feeling heard and understood by a medical provider is a crucial part of healthcare for patients.
Canada needs to establish clear accountability for health data oversight and co-ordination of electronic health records.
A loud ‘pop’ and immediate pain may mean you’ve torn your ACL. Two exercise experts explain why it’s more than a physical injury.
Rural hospitals have high fixed costs, low patient volume and a large portion of patients insured through Medicaid, which typically pays less than private insurers.
Shingles can cause severe and long-lasting complications, yet vaccination rates in Canada remain low despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine.
Surgeons are often judged by their technical skill. But new research shows that how they lead their teams can make a critical difference to patient outcomes.
Afghanistan says at least 400 people were killed in a Pakistani strike on a hospital on Monday – the latest in a deadly year for medical staff and patients worldwide.
Evidence suggests the widespread adoption of trauma-informed care practices can potentially improve access to care as well as quality of care for all patients.
A new study from a Pittsburgh hospital finds that trauma patients recover faster when emergency medical teams have shared experience working together.
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
Canada has quietly become an unexpected leader in global obesity care guidelines, but care at home — where one in four adults now lives with obesity — remains slow and uneven.
People living with complex chronic conditions are poorly served by our health-care system, which was designed to care for acute illness.
Nurses are leaving the profession faster than they’re being replaced – in part due to the emotional and physical toll they endure from disrespectful patients or their loved ones.
Many people may call it self-care to crash on the couch with your smartphone, but screen-based activities increase the load on your brain instead of resting it.
Some medical errors are unreported or even unknown to patients. Only those that result in severe complications and death are known and reported.
The 2025 tax and spending law lowers the federal loan borrowing limits for nursing students, raising the up-front costs of nursing school.
About 1 in 4 doctors practicing in the US were born abroad.
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