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- 9/6/2011
Roadmap to national pharmacare sketched
Economist says increasing revenues for services is an unavoidable element of 2014 Health Accord talks - 9/6/2011
Doctors slam Ottawa over asbestos stance
Delegates to the Canadian Medical Association’s General Council last month voted unanimously in favour of a resolution to express opposition to the federal government’s decision to reject the international designation of chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous chemical. - 9/6/2011
Students call for better career planning tools
Association backs national forum to better align postgraduate training positions with social need - 9/6/2011
Allied health professionals increasing in popularity
Patient survey finds physicians still most trusted source but ‘quality of care varies considerably’ - 9/6/2011
Seize chance to change health care: Dr. Jeff Turnbull
The regard the nation’s doctors have for the job Dr. Jeff Turnbull did as president over this past year was clear. After he finished his valedictory speech, delegates to the meeting gave him a sustained standing ovation while male board members on the dais twirled their ties in the air—a mirthful salute to Dr. Turnbull’s notorious hatred for neckwear. - 9/6/2011
Comrades in arms
- 9/6/2011
Naturopaths taking uneasy seat at patient-care table
Has the medical profession been too generous in accommodating alternative treatments? - 9/5/2011
Ortho surgery is noisy business
Red Deer surgeon finds OR tools as noisy as those in his woodworking shop - 9/5/2011
Anti-TNF agents do not raise cancer risk in arthritis patients
Finding reassuring since class of drugs has mandated warning on labels about potential risk of cancer - 9/5/2011
Evidence strongest for epinephrine in anaphylaxis Rx
Second-line drugs need more study: Simons