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- 6/23/2011
Ontario's wage freeze creating money shortage for long term care facilities
Facilities have had to cut back on services because of the provincial government's wage freeze. - 6/23/2011
Major breakthrough in untreated, unresectable advanced melanoma
CHICAGO | Truly groundbreaking change in the first-line treatment of metastatic melanoma has arrived for patients relegated to using the same largely ineffective regimens for many years. - 6/23/2011
N.S. pharmacists and government reach tentative agreement
Details won’t be released until PANS shares information with members, final approvals are received. - 6/23/2011
Exemestane new option for breast cancer prevention in postmenopausal women
CHICAGO | The aromatase inhibitor exemestane reduces the risk of invasive breast cancer by 65% in high-risk postmenopausal women, according to a large phase III, placebo-controlled trial led and coordinated by Canada’s NCIC Clinical Trials Group. - 6/23/2011
National EMR certification push ‘too little, too late’: critic
Canada Health Infoway defends new certification program - 6/23/2011
South African MDs take hospital security fears public
Doctor fatally stabbed at Middelburg Hospital on June 7 - 6/23/2011
Regional nodal irradiation improves breast CA survival
CHICAGO | All women with early breast cancer should be offered regional nodal irradiation (RNI) by their physicians to improve their long-term disease-free survival, according to Canadian-led research presented at the ASCO meeting here. - 6/22/2011
Oleptro: new extended-release trazodone for depression
Drug used to provide symptomatic relief of major depressive disorder. - 6/22/2011
Med students call for cuts to visa trainees
Distributed education could be expanded to help increase access to domestic graduates, federation argues