Skip the ER, hop on a call: Virtual urgent care offered by Jewish General Hospital
Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital is offering a new way to access emergency care: through a video call. A…
Some Montreal pharmacies fresh out of COVID-19 and flu vaccine doses
Several Montreal-area pharmacies found themselves turning away clients seeking COVID-19 and influenza shots in the first week of…
Drimonis: Quebec cannot afford to skimp on health care
Now that the provincial election is done, let’s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And…
Possible measles exposure at Trudeau airport, Ste-Justine hospital, Montreal public health warns
Montreal public health is warning that people may have been exposed to a contagious case of measles at…
Ebola scare in Montreal’s CHUM ends after patient cleared
A patient who was being assessed at a Montreal hospital over concerns about a possible Ebola infection has…
Could a publicly funded diabetes prevention program cut health-care costs in Quebec?
A publicly funded diabetes prevention program in Quebec and Ontario similar to one shown to be successful in…
CAQ plan to expand private health care could lengthen wait lists, researcher says
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette’s plan to expand private medicine risks weakening the public system and lengthening…
A ‘last resort’? Santé Quebec acknowledges 811 health line is ‘far from perfect’
Teresa Tucci will only turn to Quebec’s 811 health line as a “last resort” after saying she waited…
Quebec struck a deal to keep a digital prescription platform. The costs aren’t publicly disclosed
After Ottawa recently pulled the plug on the service, Quebec is moving forward with a digital program modernizing…
Opinion: SOS! Save our smaller family clinics
Quebec successfully met the ambitious goal of registering 500,000 new patients to family doctors, one month ahead of…
Quebec reporting a rise in diarrhea-causing parasite cases
Quebec is experiencing an uptick in the number of cases of a parasite causing watery and sometimes explosive…
Quebec digital health records system still facing challenges
“The training was insufficient and maybe not appropriate, when we look back.” That was Dr. Raja Hatem’s assessment…