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- 1/5/2012
Merger means stronger voice for home care in Nova Scotia
Health Association Nova Scotia and Home Support Nova Scotia Association have merged. This is expected to create a stronger, more unified voice for Nova Scotia's home care industry and to increase efficiency. - 1/5/2012
Canadian Cancer Society’s top 10 research breakthroughs of 2011
The Canadian Cancer Society has announced its list of top 10 cancer research breakthroughs of 2011. - 1/5/2012
Ontario pharmacists push for scope expansion to include routine injections
College hoping to include revision to Bill 179 that would allow pharmacists to administer routine injections. - 1/4/2012
NB cuts travel expense benefit for methadone patients
New Brunswick has said it will limit the amount of time that methadone patients can receive benefits for daily travel to the pharmacy where they receive treatment. - 1/4/2012
Changes to Canadian guidelines for managing gonorrhea
Interim guidelines should be used until the gonorrhea chapter of the Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections is revised. - 1/4/2012
Grassroots e-health change aim of February event
MONTREAL | Where can we solve the most pressing problems facing health care? According to the University of Alberta medical student Jeeshan Chowdhury, the answer may be at a “hackathon.” - 1/4/2012
Pharmacists once again ranked the most trusted profession in Canada
Eight in 10 respondents say they trust pharmacists. - 1/3/2012
Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital to build new patient care tower
St. Michael’s Hospital has announced plans to build a 17-storey, 250,000-sq.-ft. patient care tower in downtown Toronto that will contain five new operating rooms and relocate patient beds from an 85-year-old wing. - 1/3/2012
Clip use at Montreal Heart Institute is Canadian first
The interventional cardiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute recently conducted the first clinical procedure in Canada using the MitraClip system, which is designed to treat patients suffering from mitral valve failure, a common heart defect.