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The Medical Services Commission has gone to court to stop the corporation from charging extra fees to patients.

B.C.'s highest court has upheld a decision banning a Vancouver doctor from billing to the province's public health insurance plan for three years and ordering him to pay back at least $682,744.

In a retrospective cohort study from Canada, Dr Mary Kennedy and colleagues explore the effect of discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids on risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use disorder.

In a retrospective cohort study from Canada, Dr Mary Kennedy and colleagues explore the effect of discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids on risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use disorder.

Canadas Health Act does little to address the fundamental tension in the current system, and needs to adapt to new scenarios.

A B.C. doctor has been banned for life from registering with the provinces college of physicians and surgeons after admitting to an "extensive history" of unprofessional conduct, mostly related to billing practices.

Eight ways to judge the NDP premier’s legacy.

We are going to miss Hulk Horgan.

A Metro Vancouver family doctor with a long history of discipline for fraudulent billing and misconduct will soon have his medical licence permanently cancelled by his professional college.

Toronto has unveiled its plan to “ensure warm and welcoming places are available for those experiencing homelessness” during the coldest months of the year.