A physician shortage has been declared in both Canada and the United States. Changes in emigration patterns of Canadian-educated physicians are not believed to have had a profound effect on the Canadian physician workforce; however, Phillips and colleagues report that, in 2006, 1 in 12 Canadian-educated physicians were practising in the US.
The first-ever Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on the Management and Prevention of Obesity in Adults and Children, published April 10, 2007 in theCanadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), recommend that waist circumference be measured in all Canadian adults, and that a national surveillance system be developed that incorporates this measurement along with height and weight.
Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH, and David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD, Professors of Surgery at Scott and White?s University Medical Center and Texas A&M College of Medicine, and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, respectively, have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Asthma symptoms vary greatly among individuals and vary at times with each individual. In this comprehensive study in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers address the prevalence and process of step-down therapy as symptoms subside.
Nearly five years after California Governor Gray Davis signed a landmark bill to extend Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage to HIV-positive, non-disabled individuals statewide, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US? largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia?including 12 clinics in California?today filed a legal complaint against California?s Department of Health Services (DHS) to compel the state to comply with this groundbreaking legislation.
UCSD Medical Center cardiology and neurology specialists are using a novel method to save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest.
A leading expert on modern day management of cancer is calling for the implementation of proper procedures that would allow NHS patients to top up cancer care in the private sector.
One in three ovarian cancer patients in the U.S. fails to receive the recommended comprehensive surgical treatment, according to a study in the May 15, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
A new study provides evidence that racial differences in the clinical presentation of breast cancer may be due more to biological factors rather than differences in access to health care alone.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that all ten provinces and three territories have agreed to establish Patient Wait Times Guarantees by 2010.