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- 6/23/2011
Exemestane new option for breast cancer prevention in postmenopausal women
CHICAGO | The aromatase inhibitor exemestane reduces the risk of invasive breast cancer by 65% in high-risk postmenopausal women, according to a large phase III, placebo-controlled trial led and coordinated by Canada’s NCIC Clinical Trials Group. - 6/23/2011
CNA president says NP barriers cited by MDs no surprise
Other hurdles identified add up to a lack of clarity about role, value of NPs, adds Judith Shamian - 6/23/2011
Ontario's wage freeze creating money shortage for long term care facilities
Facilities have had to cut back on services because of the provincial government's wage freeze. - 6/23/2011
N.S. pharmacists and government reach tentative agreement
Details won’t be released until PANS shares information with members, final approvals are received. - 6/23/2011
Major breakthrough in untreated, unresectable advanced melanoma
CHICAGO | Truly groundbreaking change in the first-line treatment of metastatic melanoma has arrived for patients relegated to using the same largely ineffective regimens for many years. - 6/23/2011
South African MDs take hospital security fears public
Doctor fatally stabbed at Middelburg Hospital on June 7 - 6/23/2011
Regional nodal irradiation improves breast CA survival
CHICAGO | All women with early breast cancer should be offered regional nodal irradiation (RNI) by their physicians to improve their long-term disease-free survival, according to Canadian-led research presented at the ASCO meeting here. - 6/22/2011
Alberta touts technology that is allowing stroke specialists to share expertise
EDMONTON | Albertans are getting timely, life-saving stroke care thanks to videoconferencing technology that allows specialists in Edmonton or Calgary to quickly see, speak with, analyze and direct treatment to stroke patients, wherever they live in the province. - 6/22/2011
Inferno in the north
Dr. Philip Immelman survives 10 days as the sole MD in Slave Lake fire zone only to find his own house destroyed