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- 8/9/2011
Ask the Experts: Benefits vs costs of home blood glucose monitoring
Q. With all the controversy over the benefits vs costs of home blood glucose monitoring in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not receiving insulin, what are you recommending to your patients? - 8/9/2011
Batteries, eggs … and a medical checkup?
Medical clinics spring up in Walmart stores in four provinces - 8/9/2011
U.S. MDs have more paperwork than Canadian MDs: study
If you think they have it bad when it comes to time spent on health administrative duties, a new U.S.-Canadian study has revealed that American doctors have it much worse - 8/9/2011
Contract awarded for Oakville hospital project
Hospital Infrastructure Partners has signed a fixed-price contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new replacement Oakville Hospital in southern Ontario. - 8/9/2011
Osteoporosis Canada chooses PatientOrderSets.com
Osteoporosis Canada and PatientOrderSets.com have announced a partnership to deliver improved healthcare to Canadians with osteoporosis through PatientOrderSets.com's national network of more than 150 hospitals. - 8/9/2011
Best practices for methadone treatment need to be updated
Number of patients receiving treatment has gone up sharply but number of prescribing doctors has barely risen - 8/8/2011
New Canadian guidelines for prostate cancer screening
Guidelines promote early detection to reduce morbidity and mortality. - 8/8/2011
Canada's first chemotherapy robot installed at Royal Victoria Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie, Ont., is bringing state-of-the-art robotic technology to its Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre. It is the first hospital in the country to install the Robotic Intravenous Automation System, or RIVA. - 8/8/2011
Calgary posts emergency room waits online
Alberta Health Services has begun to post wait times online for four Calgary hospital emergency departments. Updated every two minutes, the times reflect the estimated wait from assessment by a triage nurse to the moment a patient gets to see a physician at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre and Rockyview General Hospital.