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- 10/16/2011
Websites to report national drug shortages
Starting next month, manufacturers to update websites on current and impending supply issues. - 10/16/2011
University competition aimed at non-communicable diseases
IBM and Novartis have established the NCD Challenge, a competition among a number of the world's leading universities. It is designed to tap the inventiveness of students to find new ways to address the rise of non-communicable diseases in both developing and developed countries. - 10/16/2011
China’s cardiovascular disease mortality rate called 'epidemic'
The mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease in China is over 40%, which is among the highest in the world and has been described as "epidemic." - 10/16/2011
St. John's pharmacist jailed for trafficking
Ann Marie Burke sentenced to just over two years in prison for drug trafficking. - 10/16/2011
The Healthcare Interview: Myra Rutherdale on how nurses shaped care in Canada's north
In her new book, Dr. Myra Rutherdale reveals that nurses in the north "often worked on their own and in conditions that were less than ideal. They had to improvise and they had to go beyond their training in order to help in the communities where they worked. . . . Much of what happened in places like northern Canada had much to do with colonization and the politics of inequity." - 10/13/2011
Vancouver Coastal Health selects Medworxx platform
Vancouver Coastal Health has selected the Medworxx Utilization Management System to provide evidence-based clinical admission and discharge criteria across Lions Gate Hospital and Richmond Hospital. - 10/13/2011
Outgoing AMA president sums up term: ‘Tumultuous’
Dr. Patrick White calls for greater political involvement by the profession - 10/13/2011
Hospital integrates pharmacy care with inpatient/outpatient program
In order to ease patients through the often overwhelming recovery process, and reduce medication-related problems, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Illinois has begun implementing a two-phase program designed to improve communication between inpatient pharmacists and patients during their stay and after discharge. - 10/13/2011
MD input in future of health care a sticking point with gov’t
Doctors want extension of expired trilateral master agreement as bargaining continues on a new over-arching contract