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B.C. to market health tourism

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 9:58pm CST

B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he has a plan to market health-care services to rich, offshore patients similar to the way the province sells higher education to foreign students.
Quebec criticized for hospital waits

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 9:49pm CST

Concerns over delayed surgeries and overcrowded emergency rooms dominated question period at Quebec's national assembly Tuesday, following the recent deaths of two patients - one waiting for heart surgery and the other, who had spent four days waiting on a stretcher in the ER.
Avastin fight now moves to P.E.I.

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:49pm CST

A cancer patient who successfully helped lobby the New Brunswick government to fund an expensive cancer drug is now shifting his focus to P.E.I. in an effort to have Avastin funded by that province.
Alberta Children's Hospital errors revealed

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:55pm CST

Failures to implement recommendations from previous incidents and poor communication led to unrelated errors - including two non-fatal drug overdoses - at the Alberta Children's Hospital, a review has concluded.
Flu shots for children protect adults: study

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:57pm CST

Vaccinating children against seasonal flu helps protect others in their community, a new Canadian study suggests.
Baby could have survived methadone OD: doctor

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:35pm CST

A baby girl's body began to shut down hours after swallowing a lethal dose of methadone in her Calgary home, a manslaughter trial has heard.
N.L. health staff slow on drug errors

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:11pm CST

A review of drug testing errors in Newfoundland and Labrador finds that Eastern Health Authority staff didn't react quickly enough when problems administering cyclosporine were first identified.
School pop campaign in U.S. cuts calories

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:06pm CST

Sales of sugary drinks have fallen in the U.S., the result of an effort to tackle obesity, the beverage industry says.
Virus can attack prostate cancer

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:31pm CST

Researchers in Alberta have successfully tested a new viral approach to treating prostate cancer in a small number of men.
Windsor nurses allege doctor made sexual comments

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:13pm CST

Windsor police are investigating allegations that an off-duty emergency room doctor at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital was intoxicated and made sexual advances to two nurses.
Tailored diet may slow DNA damage

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:13pm CST

Mounting evidence on the effect of micronutrients on DNA damage calls for a re-evaluation of recommended dietary intake values, say researchers.

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