Healthcare

Twice as many Nova Scotians joined the province’s Need a Family Practice registry, compared to those who were matched with a doctor or nurse practitioner last month.

Meanwhile, province moves Need a Family Practice Registry report to online dashboard.

Dr. David Davison has been suspended by the Nova Scotia College of Physicians & Surgeons.

One in seven Nova Scotians are now on the province’s waitlist for a family doctor or nurse practitioner—and the government is lagging in its reporting.

The province’s waitlist has more than doubled since 2021—and it’s still ballooning.

The province has unveiled a spate of changes, but critics say there are more gaps to fill.

Tim Houston campaigned on a promise that he would solve the province’s primary care shortage. It hasn’t worked.

A look inside the ‘shroom boom and the nascent Atlantic industry’s promise and perils.

Halucenex’s 20-person clinical trial is the first of its kind in the province.

"The premier has had both pluses and minuses. I'd rate him at about 52.5%."

“Today while you and I are talking, there's a woman walking out of the clinic across the street who just was told she had breast cancer,” Dr. Paola Marignani says. “I want that woman to know she's got another 50 years.”

Martha Paynter wrote the book on Canadian abortion access, and she says it’s “no more of a legal issue than antibiotics or knee-replacement surgery.”

MP Gord Johns says Nova Scotians should urge their MPs to support Bill C-216.

Open Door Centre calls itself a “healthy life choices centre” even though it’s on the list of anti-choice organizations in Nova Scotia.

It remains unclear when universal mental health care will be a reality in NS.

In part two of The Coast’s series on the crisis in OBGYN care, a look at the big costs, long waits and barriers for queer families in the way of getting pregnant.