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OTTAWA | Canada is in danger of losing its only national monitoring system for healthcare-acquired infections. The Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) is anticipating significant budget cuts next year.
Another round of fighting has erupted between British Columbia’s nurses and its health officer after a U.K.-based, non-profit scientific group publicly questioned the evidence used to justify a mandatory flu-shot policy for provincial health-care workers.
TORONTO | Medical use of probiotics could be significant in minimizing C. difficile infection among hospitalized patients taking antibiotics, according to new research from The Hospital for Sick Children and McMaster University.
