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- 6/27/2011
Manitoba releases women’s health strategy
Manitoba has announced a new women’s health strategy and broken ground on a new women’s hospital, scheduled to open in 2014, at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. - 6/27/2011
Sex Quest: new Facebook game introduced by SOGC
Game designed to help Canadians learn about healthy sexuality, contraception and sexually transmitted infections. - 6/27/2011
Committee calls for Lakeridge Health to increase RN staffing
Nurses in the surgical unit took concerns about inadequate staffing levels, safe patient care to an Independent Assessment Committee. - 6/26/2011
Jail nurses tended injuries of rioters
- 6/26/2011
Low-tech solution to broaden access to medication history in B.C.
Manual system rolling out that will allow other healthcare providers to call the pharmacy to request the BPMH. - 6/26/2011
OMA ‘blindsided’ by crackdown on fishy OHIP billing
TORONTO | The Ontario Medical Association is reeling from the provincial government’s decision to ramp up investigations into suspicious Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) billings—a decision that is sitting well with other health-care workers and groups. - 6/26/2011
Safe sleep: preventing infant deaths
New joint statement provides evidence-based information to promote safe sleeping environments for infants and assist in preventing SIDS. - 6/26/2011
B.C. bans inducements on PharmaCare prescriptions
Pharmacies in B.C. may no longer use loyalty programs to encourage prescription orders. - 6/26/2011
Reliable diagnostics a huge barrier to improving health across Africa
It’s estimated only 8% of all laboratories in sub-Saharan Africa meet international accreditation standards. An average rural lab in Africa serves anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 people and most have poor infrastructure, insufficient staff and equipment shortages. Enter AMREF and its lab program, which provides technical assistance, disease outbreak investigations and research, as well as much-needed quality assessment.