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- 5/30/2013
Take a holiday from Canada’s healthcare straightjacket
For those who travel outside of the country in the coming months, we have a modest proposal: find a pub, sit down with locals and ask about their nation’s health care system. - 5/29/2013
There are risks to drug bulk purchasing agreements
How much are Canadians willing to give up in the name of cost management? - 5/29/2013
Man says he had breast reduction without adequate anesthesia
VANCOUVER | A court has ordered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia to re-open an investigation into a man’s breast reduction surgery that allegedly went wrong. - 5/29/2013
Federal government invests in eHealth innovation, funds research
OTTAWA | The Canadian government has announced almost $1.6 million in funding to support research projects focused on developing innovative new electronic health (eHealth) technologies. - 5/28/2013
Former MUHC CEO Arthur Porter arrested, awaiting extradition
MONTREAL | Dr. Arthur Porter, former executive director and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre, has been arrested in Panama and is awaiting extradition to Canada on several criminal changes, according to CBC reports. - 5/27/2013
The Medical Post table of contents: May 28, 2013 print edition
Read the current issue of the Medical Post here. - 5/27/2013
B.C. touts success of rapid HIV testing
Targeted program responsible for disproportionate share of diagnoses - 5/27/2013
Confusion universal on prostate cancer screening, U.S. group charges
WASHINGTON, D.C. | The U.S. Prostate Cancer Roundtable has expressed concern about the utterly confusing guidance being offered – to both the professional healthcare community and to individual consumers – about whether men should or should not be tested ("screened") for risk of prostate cancer.