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- 8/8/2011
Canada's first chemotherapy robot installed at Royal Victoria Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie, Ont., is bringing state-of-the-art robotic technology to its Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre. It is the first hospital in the country to install the Robotic Intravenous Automation System, or RIVA. - 8/8/2011
Calgary posts emergency room waits online
Alberta Health Services has begun to post wait times online for four Calgary hospital emergency departments. Updated every two minutes, the times reflect the estimated wait from assessment by a triage nurse to the moment a patient gets to see a physician at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre and Rockyview General Hospital. - 8/8/2011
New Canadian guidelines for prostate cancer screening
Guidelines promote early detection to reduce morbidity and mortality. - 8/7/2011
Quebec family doctors vote on new master agreement
Quebec’s 8,300 family doctors have voted on a government offer to pay them more money in exchange for taking on more patients. And the results could mark a turning point in the province’s decade-long efforts to deal with a chronic medical manpower shortage that has left more than two million Quebecers without a family physician. - 8/3/2011
BCMA, province resume fee talks
- 8/3/2011
Victrelis for chronic hepatitis C launched
Drug is used in combination with peginterferon alpha/ribavirin. - 8/2/2011
PEI pharmacists lobby for more authority
Alarmed by the ongoing prescription drug shortage, Prince Edward Island pharmacists are stepping up their efforts for expanded prescriptive authority. - 8/2/2011
Pharmacies reluctant to support Elton John’s needle exchange program
Initiative encourages heroin addicts to exchange used needles at pharmacies for clean needles.