New Ontario MRIs to shorten wait times
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OTTAWA - Ontario plans to shorten wait times for some health services by opening nine new MRI testing centres and buying back private clinics already offering the service.
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Fast-track surgery centres are treating people up to eight times quicker than other NHS providers, a government report says.
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Canada and the United States have announced plans to decrease border wait times at the Detroit-Windsor, Ont. border crossings. Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan and US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
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The new SNP administration is to set out its approach for tackling NHS waiting times in Scotland.
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State public health officials are moving to allow medical clinics to open in retail stores, but are delaying a decision on whether to let CVS Corp. open 20 to 30 "MinuteClinics" in the Boston area.
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Well, that&#39;s settled then, isn&#39;t it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government&#39;s priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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FRIDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is better than mammography at detecting additional disease in breast cancer patients, says an Italian study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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TORONTO - Magnetic resonance imaging may be better at finding breast cancer in women who are genetically predisposed to the disease than other screening methods, Canadian researchers say.
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THE launch of the second offer scheme in Wales, to reduce long waiting times for surgery, has seen private hospitals playing a greater role in treating NHS patients.
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Operating theatres could be kept open longer to help hospitals cut waiting times, Tony Blair is to say.
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OTTAWAâPatients&#39; waiting times and runaway health-care costs could both be reduced by forcing hospitals to compete for government health-care funding, says the latest report on Canada&#39;s medicare system.
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THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- New ways of imaging the heart, the brain and the pelvis could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of illnesses such as heart disease, Alzheimer&#39;s disease and ovarian cancer.
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HAMILTON, Ont. (CP) - Ontario&#39;s top priority is reducing health care wait times and pharmacare is just one means to that end, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Saturday as he backed away from the provinces&#39; demand for a national drug plan.
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Responding to the concerns of hospital operators, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s administration announced Thursday that it will delay requiring tougher nurse-to-patient ratios due to take effect Jan. 1 until 2008.
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Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops.
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Fido may not be able to say where it hurts, but veterinarians at Angell Animal Medical Center in Jamaica Plain will be able to peer into his brain with an MRI being installed this month.
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The NHS is reducing waiting times for treatment, improving survival rates and living within its budget, a report says.