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- 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
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. - 10/14/2013
HSCN offers second professional development day in December
TORONTO | Following what it calls a “highly successful” professional development day offered at the HSCN conference in May, the Healthcare Supply Chain Network has announced a second professional development day for the supply chain community, Dec. 4-5. - 10/14/2013
Pharmacists dispense tweets during global twitter campaign
Pharmacists around the world used the hashtag #Pharmacist to document some of the ways they help their patients. - 10/14/2013
Let Ontario nurses prescribe basic drugs: Editorial
Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics. - 10/14/2013
B.C. study shows new HIV test helps reduce disease spread
VANCOUVER | British Columbia will be the first jurisdiction in Canada to use a new, more accurate HIV detection test. - 10/14/2013
Ex-hockey player starts new life as nurse
They draped a ribbon over Jim Ennis’s neck Monday night in Worcester, but it wasn’t the kind of honor typically bestowed on ex-athletes. - 10/14/2013
Novel program for early-onset morbid obesity licensed to Pfizer
MONTREAL | The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer - Commercialization of Research and its host institution, the Université de Montréal, have licensed a novel early-onset morbid obesity pre-clinical program to Pfizer. The program was developed at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer. - 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
Welch Allyn offers new connectivity-ready ECG device
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. | Medical diagnostic device company Welch Allyn says a new connectivity-ready electrocardiograph device, the CP 150, is now available in Canada.