2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 Canada English Health

  National Post   
Canada's doctors decline to join anti-marijuana campaign  CBC.ca
The main groups representing Canadian doctors have declared they will not participate in Health Canada's upcoming anti-drug campaign targeting young people. “The educational campaign has now become a political football on Canada's marijuana policy,” ...

Canadian medical groups pull support for government led anti-drug campaign   The Globe and Mail
Doctors decline to join 'political football' in Health Canada's anti-drug ads   CTV News
Doctors' groups in Canada decline to join anti-pot campaign   DigitalJournal.com
Times Colonist   
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  National Post   
'Second-hand vapour' is no threat  National Post
Not satisfied with having banned cigarettes in just about every place imaginable, regulators and politicians across the country are now setting their sights on fake cigarettes as well. Public health officials inadvertently bolstering tobacco market with crackdown ...

Unattractive Tobacco Packaging Could Help People Quit Smoking   Dumb-Out
Changes to tobacco packaging could save millions of pounds and aid health say ...   Huddersfield Examiner
Health report: W.Va.'s anti-smoking policies must be stricter   Charleston Gazette
DigitalJournal.com   
Tucson News Now   
Austin American-Statesman   
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  Vancouver Sun   
Opinion: Drug substitution safe and effective  Vancouver Sun
In response to Robert Oliphant's column (Drug switch puts cash before patients, Aug. 12) I'd like to give the facts about BC Pharmacare's decision to change which DPP-4 inhibitor drugs it covers for diabetics. After a thorough therapeutic review, Pharmacare ...


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  NBCNews.com   
Shrieking Oprah Winfrey completes viral 'ice bucket challenge'  Firstpost
TV host Oprah Winfrey has completed the ice bucket challenge and has dared actress Helen Mirren and director Steven Spielberg to perform it. The shrieking media icon had the bucket of ice water dumped on her from behind. The challenge, which has gone ...

Facebook Users Take the Ice Bucket Challenge 2:14   The Australian
'Ice Bucket Challenge' Has Raised Millions for ALS Association   New York Times
'The Normal Heart' Cast Matt Bomer Reveals Acting Chops Started In A Swing ...   KDramaStars
Daily Mail   
KEYC   
WAFF   
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  London Free Press   
African Ebola outbreak like 'wartime'  London Free Press
Some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion is revealed in this undated handout colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) obtained by Reuters August 1, 2014. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the worst since the disease was ...

FIU Doctor Headed to Africa to Fight Ebola   NBC 6 South Florida

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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   
Search underway for missing senior with Alzheimer's  CTV News
Calgary police are asking for help from the public as they attempt to locate a 72-year-old Alzheimer's patient who remains unaccounted for. Danh Huynh was last seen on Saturday morning in the 1700 block of 48 St. S.E.. In addition to Alzheimer's diseases, ...

Police looking for help locating missing senior   News Talk 770 Calgary
Danh Huynh, 72-year old Alzheimer's patient missing   Beacon News (blog)

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  The Province   
Vancouver woman Lencoe swims 12 hours to raise fund for MS research  Shanghai Daily (subscription)
VANCOUVER, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vancouver lady Taryn Lencoe, 28, swam for incredible 12 hours in the sea here on Saturday to raise fund for the fight against the debilitating disease of multiple sclerosis (MS). On Saturday morning in Vancouver, Lencoe ...

Woman spends 12 hours swimming off Kits Beach to raise money for MS   Globalnews.ca
Taryn Lencoe sets out on 12 hour swim from Kits Beach   CBC.ca

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Tariq Drabu Encourages Patients to Use Electric Toothbrushes in 2014  DigitalJournal.com
Tariq Drabu is a Manchester born and educated dentist and specialist oral surgeon. He is one of the youngest dentists to ever graduate in the UK at twenty one before spending years working in busy dental hospitals in the UK and Saudi Arabia. On his return ...


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  The Province   
Her high school-age son was addicted to heroin and mentally ill, so mom leapt to ...  The Province
Editor's note: The teen's name is not being used because he is a minor. BURNABY, B.C. — The crisis, as Burnaby's Gerda Wever calls it, started this past February with a phone call. It was a youth worker from her youngest son's high school, and Wever was ...

Burnaby mom launches new foundation   Burnaby Now

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