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- 2/11/2013
Video: Rap, pharmacy style (Warning: Explicit language)
Grammy award-winning rap star Drake's new video, partly shot inside a Shoppers Drug Mart, launches. - 2/11/2013
Updated Canadian guidelines for managing hypertension
Annual guidelines outline recommendations for the diagnosis and assessment of hypertension. - 2/11/2013
U.K. offical aims to cut nurses' paperwork by a third
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, wants to cut the amount of paperwork doctors and nurses have to do by a third so they can spend hours more every week with patients, he will announce today. - 2/11/2013
Rexall vastly outdid other pharmacies on flu shot numbers
Out of the 200,000 flu shots administered by pharmacists in Ontario, a whopping 190,000 of those were given by Rexall pharmacists. - 2/11/2013
Registered nurses laid off at West Vancouver facility
B.C. nurses are concerned a recent round of layoffs at Inglewood Care Centre will result in a lesser level of care for residents at the West Vancouver facility. - 2/11/2013
Ontario needs more nurses: RNAO
- 2/11/2013
New and emerging roles for nurses
- 2/11/2013
Kate Middleton prank call DJ returns to radio two months after nurses' suicide
Just two months after the tragic death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, the Australian DJs who made the Kate Middleton prank call in December are coming back on air, with Michael Christian reportedly returning to the airwaves today. - 2/11/2013
Irregular heart rhythm clue to unexplained strokes: Canadian study
HONOLULU | A significant percentage of people experiencing unexplained strokes have silent atrial fibrillation. Researchers at 16 Canadian stroke centres discovered this as part of the largest study and first randomized clinical trial of heart monitoring in stroke patients. - 2/11/2013
Children’s care under attack in Fraser Valley, nurses warn
The BC Nurses’ Union is sounding the alarm about a move to convert children’s care beds at Abbotsford Regional Hospital for adult use. - 2/11/2013
B.C. hiring an extra 45 NPs this year
An extra 45 nurse practitioners are to be hired across B.C. this year, including 10 in Fraser Health and nine in the Vancouver Coastal health region.