A new program launched this month by the New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons is designed to increase the number of foreign-trained doctors licensed to practise in the province. It’s …
More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate change and biodiversity loss — as a global health emergency, …
The College of Family Physicians of Canada is being asked to “pause, hold and maybe stop” its plans to increase the time it takes to train a family doctor from two years …
As often as she can, Rola Baker tries to speak with her family in Gaza through a shaky internet connection from her home in Moncton, N.B. Her two brothers, three …
On a Friday afternoon in Nashville last October, several hundred people gathered in a plaza near the state capitol for an event billed as the “Rally to End Child Mutilation.” …
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