2014年8月16日 星期六

2014-08-17 Canada English Health

  Montreal Gazette   
10 health stories that mattered this week  CMAJ
Canada is donating up to 1000 doses of its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization for use in the West Africa outbreak that has now claimed about 1000 lives. The VSV-EBOV vaccine, which was developed by the Public Health Agency of ...

How a Canadian Prairie city made an Ebola vaccine   Reuters Canada
Experts, not politicians, to decide who gets donated Ebola vaccine: Canada   Montreal Gazette

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  Canada News   
Whistler company recalls mouldy batch of medical marijuana, Report  Canada News
A B.C.-based medical marijuana producer is recalling a batch of pot after finding that it was contaminated with mould. Whistler Medical Marijuana Corp is voluntarily recalling its White Widow batch of medical marijuana because it may be mouldy. According to ...

Health Canada Issues Medical Marijuana Recall   KelownaNow
Whistler company recalls mouldy batch of medical marijuana   Vancouver Sun
Whistler Medical Marijuana Corp. recalls batch of White Widow due to mould   CBC.ca
Sarnia Observer   
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  Vancouver Sun   
Medical pot user pleased with court ruling  Prince George Citizen
A Prince George senior who has been using medical marijuana for years is praising a B.C. Appeal Court decision. The ruling, which declared unconstitutional the limiting of medical marijuana use to only its dried form, could open the door to use the substance ...

Medical pot cookie prohibition ruled unconstitutional   CBC.ca
Top court in BC green-lights pot brownies and other treats, deeming federal ...   National Post
Court backs pot-cookie baker in city   Times Colonist
StarPhoenix   
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  Montreal Gazette   
Quebec on e-cigarettes: No sale to minors, no 'vaping' in public  CBC.ca
The Quebec government may soon crack down on the sale of electronic cigarettes, if Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois has her way. Charlebois wants the sale of e-cigarettes to minors banned. She also wants to apply the same rules to e-cigarettes as to ...

Quebec wants to outlaw sales of e-cigarettes to minors   Montreal Gazette

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  StarPhoenix   
One in five depressed patients resistant to treatment  StarPhoenix
A makeshift memorial for actor Robin Williams, who authorities said committed suicide Monday, is set up outside a home used in the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire. About 11 per cent of Canadians will meet criteria for major depression at some point in their lives.
One in five patients resistant to treatment   Regina Leader-Post
Canadian doctors report more cases of treatment-resistant depression   Canada.com

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Lean contract scaled back by $2.6M  StarPhoenix
Health care consultant John Black, shown here visiting Royal University Hospital last fall, and his 20-member team were hired in 2012. As of May 31, the province had paid them $23.9 million. Photograph by: Richard Marjan, The Starphoenix Files , The ...


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  Regina Leader-Post   
RQHR seeks third-party provider for endoscopies  Regina Leader-Post
First it was day surgeries and diagnostic services. Now endoscopies are being pegged for outsourcing to a third-party provider. The Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region issued a request for proposal Friday to explore using the private sector for some endoscopy ...

Sask. hopes private clinic will speed up wait times for endoscopies   CTV News
SK Government seeks private endoscopy partner   650 CKOM News Talk Radio

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  TheChronicleHerald.ca   
Truro teen aims to be youngest to swim Northumberland Strait  TheChronicleHerald.ca
Cali Bruce will use memories of a cousin who battled cancer to motivate her as she swims across the normally choppy waters of the Northumberland Strait on Sunday in what could be a record-breaking effort for the 14-year-old girl. Bruce's aim is to become ...

Fourteen-year-old aims for record in long-distance charity swim to PEI   News1130

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Speaking out against the stigma of schizophrenia  Cambridge Times
CAMBRIDGE – Jesse Owens wouldn't want you to know he was schizophrenic; he worked hard to conceal the chronic brain condition from friends and co-workers. But following his sudden passing earlier this year at the age of 32, his family felt compelled to ...


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  CTV News   
Fewer crashes in BC since tough new drunk driving laws: study  CTV News
A new study suggests that while changes to British Columbia's drunk driving laws have been controversial, they may also be linked to a drop in fatal car crashes and hospital admissions. Researchers from the University of British Columbia contend that the ...

Tougher BC impaired driving laws save lives: study   News1130
Car crashes drop in Canada's BC due to tough driving laws   Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Stronger drunk driving laws lead to safer roads: study   University of British Columbia

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