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- 9/2/2013
Press Review - September 3, 2013
- 9/2/2013
Phase III study of investigational C. diff vaccine begins in Canada
TORONTO | Sanofi Pasteur has announced the initiation of its Phase III clinical program called Cdiffense to evaluate the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of an investigational vaccine for the prevention of primary symptomatic Clostridium difficile infection. - 9/2/2013
Launch of Quebec's expanded pharmacy services postponed
Quebec pharmacists were set to start providing expanded services September 3, but since fee negotiations are still underway, that launch date has been postponed indefinitely. - 9/2/2013
Nurses: the forgotten workforce
A new Australian survey of nurses’ attitudes highlights a profession that sees itself as overlooked by management and constantly suffocated by too much red tape. - 9/2/2013
London surgeons first in Canada to use single incision for living-donor kidney transplant
LONDON, Ont. | Surgeons at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) have made Canadian history by performing the first living-donor kidney removal for transplant purposes, using a single incision point. - 9/2/2013
B.C. Nurses' Union files FOI against employer
The B.C. Nurses' Union has thrown another punch in a battle over staff organization at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, by filing a Freedom of Information request to its own employer. - 9/2/2013
New mobile app for submitting incident and patient feedback reports
TORONTO | A new incident and patient feedback reporting app, RL6:Mobile, has been inmtroduced by RL Solutions, creator of healthcare quality and safety software. - 9/2/2013
Next-generation drug-eluting stent approved by Health Canada
ABBOTT PARK, Ill. | Abbott has announced that the Xience Xpeditio Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System has received Health Canada approval and is launching immediately in Canada. - 9/2/2013
Med students told: ‘You know you’re a rural doctor when …’
Funny lines but message serious about busting the myth that intelligence is inversely related to the distance you are from the city