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- 2/4/2013
Healthcare vendor credentialing program introduced by HSCN
The Healthcare Supply Chain Network (HSCN) has announced a program for vendor credentialing developed around the HSCN National Standard for Vendor Credentialing in Canada. - 2/4/2013
Pharmacist allegedly tricked patient into paying thousands more for meds
Accused charged with inflating prices up to 20 times the actual cost over a four-year timeframe. - 2/4/2013
Dreaming of chucking it all and moving to France? Meet a doctor who did it
Standing in her kitchen one chilly February morning three years ago, Dr. Bobbi French found herself at a crossroads. Dr. French, an adolescent psychiatrist, was the chief of inpatient services at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. She had just wound up an intense project involving a complete overhaul of a troubled unit. The work had been part of a year-long contract, and she now had to decide whether to sign on for another year.“I was obviously having some kind of mid-life mayhem, and I think it was just the fact that I wasn’t getting any younger. And I thought, ‘If I don’t do this now, I’ll sign another contract and I will never ever think to do it again. I’ll never have the courage to do it again.’ ” - 2/4/2013
Artificial pancreas may be way to treat type 1 diabetes, Montreal trial shows
MONTREAL | Researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, have conducted a trial comparing a dual-hormone artificial pancreas with conventional diabetes treatment using an insulin pump. - 2/4/2013
Montreal Heart Institute chosen to be MitraClip reference centre
MONTREAL | The Montreal Heart Institute has been designated as a Center of Excellence by Abbott Vascular for the percutaneous treatment of mitral valve failure with its MitraClip system. - 2/4/2013
Movember funds support prostate cancer researchers
TORONTO | Prostate Cancer Canada has announced the four recipients of the Rising Star in Prostate Cancer Research program. Funding for the program is provided through the Movember fund-raising initiative. - 2/4/2013
Breakthrough for Saudi women: they can soon work in retail pharmacies
But retailers that employ both women and men must erect barriers to separate sexes while they work. - 2/4/2013
Family still probing mysterious death of B.C. doctor
When Dr. Roger Morrison was found dead in the basement of his home, police called it a bloody crime scene. - 2/3/2013
Public can now see the dirt on clinics failing inspections
An Ottawa doctor ran a dirty, dangerous clinic that potentially put patients at risk—information made public under a new bylaw allowing the provincial watchdog to release information on Out-of-Hospital clinics.