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- 10/14/2013
Tracking nausea/vomiting in diary helped health care team reduce symptoms
Asking patients to track their nausea and vomiting after a course of chemotherapy helped the health care team to adjust medications and achieve better control of symptoms, according to the results of a small single center study. - 10/14/2013
New website aims to increase awareness about interactions between Rx meds, alcohol, and street drugs
New website expands on print publication to include more than 80 new medications - 10/14/2013
Alberta gene therapy trial to help those with genetic eye diseases
EDMONTON | Researchers Dr. Ian MacDonald and Dr. Tania Bubela have been awarded a Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunity Team grant for up to $5 million for the next five years, from Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions. - 10/14/2013
Nurses 'disappearing' from workforce: CIHI
OTTAWA | Some confusing data seems to indicate a significant number of newly-graduated registered nurses (RN) have “disappeared,” are not working as nurses. At the same time there is a growing number of RNs reaching retirement age. - 10/14/2013
CDRD, Dalhousie, IWK establish new Atlantic research node
VANCOUVER and HALIFAX | The Centre for Drug Research and Development, Canada's national drug development and commercialization centre, and its partners Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, have established a new CDRD Atlantic Research Node. - 10/14/2013
Alberta not ready to force health workers to get flu shot
Statistics show Alberta doctors, nurses and other health staff have been getting the seasonal flu shot at a rate of between 40 and 50 per cent in recent years, stirring debate about whether it should be mandatory. - 10/14/2013
History of Owen Sound nursing schools written
A retired Owen Sound nurse has compiled a 72-year history of nursing education at Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital School of Nursing and at its brief successor, the Owen Sound Regional School of Nursing. - 10/14/2013
Health care workers may be immune to unemployment
Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more. - 10/14/2013
Life Sciences Ontario, Rx&D announce joint membership initiative
OTTAWA | Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) and Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) have announced a joint membership initiative for emerging biopharmaceutical companies and associated stakeholders in Ontario. - 10/14/2013
Pressure on nurses
Nurses are frequently placed in situations where they lack the time, and in some cases the resources to care for patients in the way they would like to.