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- 5/5/2011
How to handle taking time off due to a personal crisis
Prioritize your needs and don’t delay addressing a problem when dealing with an illness or other family emergency - 5/5/2011
How to celebrate National Nursing Week, May 9-15
The theme this year is Nursing – the health of our nation. - 5/5/2011
Doctors must raise their voices against nuclear power
It shouldn’t take nuclear accidents, as happened in Japan recently, to remind us of the continual danger from the nuclear industry - 5/5/2011
Alberta reorganizes healthcare yet again
On May 3, when Dr. Chris Eagle, recently confirmed as president and chief executive officer of Alberta Health Services (AHS), announced a revised leadership model for the organization, it was the latest in a series of restructurings of the province’s health delivery system. - 5/5/2011
$6 million given for addiction research at St. Joseph's Hamilton
The Boris Family, founders of Mountain Cablevision, have donated $6 million for alcohol addiction research at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. The announcement came just weeks after the sudden death of Owen Boris on April 9 – but the gift was in the works long before then. - 5/5/2011
2011 eHealth Summit to focus on doctors, patients, mHealth
The 11th annual eHealth Summit will be held June 15-17, 2011, at The Rosseau, Red Leaves, Muskoka, Ontario. - 5/4/2011
Wave system improves booking flow
- 5/4/2011
Turn your head and cough – but not in my face!
“Turn your head and cough” is, along with “This won’t hurt a bit” and “Take two Aspirin and call me in the morning,” one of the things doctors most often say to patients. But they never say where to cough. - 5/4/2011
Toronto Western team wins HOOPP award
Toronto Western Hospital’s Unit 3B, General Internal Medicine, has won the first-ever Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Award for Leading Innovation in Front Line Care. - 5/4/2011
Saskatchewan lowers generic drug costs
Provincial government plan to lower prices goes into effect June 1.