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- 10/14/2013
HSCN offers second professional development day in December
TORONTO | Following what it calls a “highly successful” professional development day offered at the HSCN conference in May, the Healthcare Supply Chain Network has announced a second professional development day for the supply chain community, Dec. 4-5. - 10/14/2013
Pharmacists dispense tweets during global twitter campaign
Pharmacists around the world used the hashtag #Pharmacist to document some of the ways they help their patients. - 10/14/2013
Let Ontario nurses prescribe basic drugs: Editorial
Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics. - 10/14/2013
Surgery touted as first-line option in urinary incontinence
Not so fast, says Canadian expert, while lamenting physiotherapy funding problems - 10/14/2013
Novel program for early-onset morbid obesity licensed to Pfizer
MONTREAL | The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer - Commercialization of Research and its host institution, the Université de Montréal, have licensed a novel early-onset morbid obesity pre-clinical program to Pfizer. The program was developed at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer. - 10/14/2013
Whole-blood bedside rapid pregnancy test now available
MONTREAL | Abbott says its i-STAT b-hCG is the only in vitro diagnostic point-of-care whole blood test for the early detection of pregnancy capable of delivering both quantitative and qualitative results within 10 minutes at the patient's bedside. - 10/14/2013
New website aims to increase awareness about interactions between Rx meds, alcohol, and street drugs
New website expands on print publication to include more than 80 new medications - 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
Nurses 'disappearing' from workforce: CIHI
OTTAWA | Some confusing data seems to indicate a significant number of newly-graduated registered nurses (RN) have “disappeared,” are not working as nurses. At the same time there is a growing number of RNs reaching retirement age. - 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.