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Ontario considers further expanding pharmacists' scope to include more minor ailments
TORONTO - Ontario is proposing to further expand pharmacists' scope of practice by adding to the list of minor ailments they can assess, allowing them to administer more vaccines and order some lab te...
Sep 16, 2024
Eby pledges involuntary care for severe addictions in B.C., ahead of October election
VANCOUVER - British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain ...
Sep 15, 2024
Saskatchewan NDP pledges to improve rural health-care if elected
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling on Scott Moe and the Sask. Party to do more when it comes to getting health care back on track in rural Saskatchewan. NDP health critic Vicki Mowat suggested these issu...
Sep 13, 2024 Vicki Mowat, the Saskatchewan NDP's health critic, said that if elected, her party will make rural health care improvements an immediate priority. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...
Sep 13, 2024
Nebraska ballot will include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, top court rules
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot. The high court's ruling came days after it heard arguments...
Sep 13, 2024
Nebraska ballot can include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, high court rules
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot. The high court's ruling came days after it heard arguments...
Sep 13, 2024
B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabet...
Sep 12, 2024
North Dakota judge strikes down the state's abortion ban
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...
Sep 12, 2024
North Dakota judge strikes down the state's abortion ban
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...
Sep 12, 2024
B.C. family doctors call for sick days, pensions ahead of October election
VANCOUVER - Representatives of family doctors in British Columbia say giving physicians paid sick days, vacation coverage, extended health and dental benefits and a pension plan is one way to help att...
Sep 11, 2024
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