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- 10/14/2013
Health care workers may be immune to unemployment
Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more. - 10/14/2013
Centuries-old drug makes a comeback
Ingredient previously used to promote vomiting in poisoning cases shows promise as bladder cancer treatment. - 10/14/2013
Life Sciences Ontario, Rx&D announce joint membership initiative
OTTAWA | Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) and Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) have announced a joint membership initiative for emerging biopharmaceutical companies and associated stakeholders in Ontario. - 10/14/2013
Antiseptic effective against UTIs even at low concentration
More dilute oxychlorosene has fewer adverse effects, study shows - 10/14/2013
Video: Alberta health care to introduce physician assistants
Alberta Health Services is launching a two-year pilot project to introduce a new medical position to clinics, hospitals and long-term care homes across the province. - 10/14/2013
Nursing profession swells with young recruits while older workers stay on the job: report
A national portrait by the Canadian Institute for Health Information made public on Tuesday says the actual number of working nurses has grown by seven per cent in the last five years, outpacing growth in the Canadian labour force and population. - 10/14/2013
CDRD, Dalhousie, IWK establish new Atlantic research node
VANCOUVER and HALIFAX | The Centre for Drug Research and Development, Canada's national drug development and commercialization centre, and its partners Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, have established a new CDRD Atlantic Research Node. - 10/14/2013
Welch Allyn offers new connectivity-ready ECG device
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. | Medical diagnostic device company Welch Allyn says a new connectivity-ready electrocardiograph device, the CP 150, is now available in Canada. - 10/14/2013
Alberta gene therapy trial to help those with genetic eye diseases
EDMONTON | Researchers Dr. Ian MacDonald and Dr. Tania Bubela have been awarded a Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunity Team grant for up to $5 million for the next five years, from Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions. - 10/14/2013
Alberta not ready to force health workers to get flu shot
Statistics show Alberta doctors, nurses and other health staff have been getting the seasonal flu shot at a rate of between 40 and 50 per cent in recent years, stirring debate about whether it should be mandatory.