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Financial incentives are just part of the solution to attracting and retaining physicians, according to the president of the New Brunswick Medical Soc...

New Brunswick is just three days away from the removal of all provincial public health restrictions, like masks and isolation requirements. However, the province’s health networks will remain in their internal red levels.

Maritime provinces are moving to weekly COVID-19 data updates, as restrictions continue to ease in the region.

In less than two weeks, New Brunswick will lift all COVID-19 restrictions, but it remains unclear whether the doctors who refused to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be allowed to return to practise medicine.

New Brunswicks health minister says a standardized hospitalist program will help reduce pressure on family physicians across the province.

New Brunswicks health minister says a new program for doctors who work in hospitals will reduce pressure on family physicians across the province and help retain more of them.

Thousands of patients were left without a family doctor when Dr. Julie Hildebrand left Saint John after 10 years in practice. Now, she wants to talk about why.

Over the next few weeks, New Brunswick will be lifting all COVID-19 measures. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, there will no longer be a need to show proof of vaccination at places such as restaurants, theatres and gyms.

Some doctors in Saint John are excited to be getting a high-tech machine that will help them perform a variety of surgical procedures without having to splay patients wide open on the operating table.

New Brunswick has the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate for children under 12 among all the Atlantic Canadian provinces, with just 58 per cent having received their first dose.