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- 1/28/2013
Canadian liver group renews call for hep C testing
Survey shows GPs admit low knowledge of treatment - 1/28/2013
With premiums, Alberta premier pits MDs against taxpayers
EDMONTON | Alberta’s premier fired a salvo against the province’s doctors this week, using the specter of user fees as physicians seek a new deal. - 1/28/2013
Press Review - January 29, 2013
- 1/28/2013
When nurses become patients
I didn't figure this out until last summer. I was at a friend's place helping her move out some old furniture. Right after I lifted her hardwood coffee table, it broke apart, and the heavier piece dove straight onto my toe. After the initial shock, the pain hit, and then the picture was not pretty. - 1/28/2013
Updated Canadian guidelines for acute and chronic heart failure
Guidelines review the diagnosis of acute heart failure, based on symptoms, laboratory tests and investigations, and a validated diagnostic scoring system. - 1/28/2013
Room for better diabetes care
Few patients with type 2 disease and elevated cardiac risk achieve treatment goals - 1/28/2013
Prix Galien: Pharma's Nobel
- 1/28/2013
Private practice: the other 1%
Fed up with the public health system? Well, you can always opt out - 1/28/2013
Ontario woman first in North America to get MRI-safe defibrillator implant
NEWMARKET, ONT. | Every year an estimated 1.5 million magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are performed in Canada and the number is growing at a rate of about 10% per year. At the same time, a soaring number of Canadians who rely on implanted defibrillators to keep their hearts beating are denied this valuable, life-saving diagnostic test despite a 50 to 75% probability that they will require one over the lifetime of their defibrillator. - 1/28/2013
Nurses rally for better health care at the CPHCC
The nursing staff at the Connaigre Peninsula Health Care Centre (CPHCC) held a rally on January 16 to educate the public about a serious change to the provision of health care that Central Health is planning to make at the facility.