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• 1/17/2023

  Nova Scotia announces changes to treat emergency room patients more quickly

  Health Minister Michelle Thompson said Wednesday the deaths of 37-year-old Allison Holthoff and 67-year-old Charlene Snow have “added a sense of urgency'' for action.
• 1/17/2023

  Making pig livers human-like in quest to ease organ shortage

  The first step for workers in this suburban Minneapolis lab is to shampoo away the pig cells that made the organ do its work.
• 1/17/2023

  Prosecutor: Paramedics killed man by strapping him facedown

  Illinois authorities filed the charges against Peggy Finley and Peter Cadigan on Jan. 9, nearly a month after 35-year-old Earl Moore died.
• 1/17/2023

  U.S. feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

  Evidence has mounted over decades that some facilities wrongly diagnose residents with schizophrenia or administer antipsychotic drugs to sedate them.
• 1/17/2023

  Would you like to see me in a bikini? (Warning—partial nudity discussed)

  What does a science-obsessed clinician have to do to bring attention to the facts behind the use of probiotic products?
• 1/17/2023

  Poaching of staff top concern for Ontario hospitals over new surgical centres: OHA

  Anthony Dale says the new model of care will take a ton of work and presents many risks along the way.
• 1/17/2023

  A fishy problem: How antidepressants may impact the health of our aquatic ecosystems

  Our bodies do not fully break down each pill we take and the by-products released from our bodies are often just as active as the original medication.
• 1/17/2023

  New alcohol guidance focuses on continuum of risk, suggests warning labels

  The advice updates Canada's guidelines set in 2011, when two drinks a day were considered low risk and it was believed that women could safely consume up to 10 drinks a week and men could have 15.
• 1/16/2023

  POLL: What do you think of Ontario's plan to use private providers?

  With major ongoing pressure on the province's hospital system, the Ontario government announced Monday it plans to publicly fund certain private providers to speed up access to MRIs, CT scans and colonoscopies among other procedures.
• 1/16/2023

  Officials promise changes at Montreal hospital after ER nurse protest

  More than 90 of 115 nurses in the hospital's ER signed a petition demanding the unit chief resign.