2015年4月22日 星期三

2015-04-23 Canada English Health


Canada.com
   
Alzheimer's sufferers to trial new drug hope   
Canada.com
Men and women with early Alzheimer's disease are being recruited for a drug trial which it is hoped could lead to the first treatment to reverse progression of the condition. Scientists suggest that if the GBP 5 million study is successful, it will herald the most ...


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Edmonton Journal
   
Stem cell treatment may signal cure for genetic diseases   
Edmonton Journal
BRITISH doctors have cured children of a deadly inherited disorder using a ground-breaking stem cell treatment that heralds a new dawn for genetic therapies. Patients with the most severe form of the rare blood condition Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome have now ...


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Vancouver Sun
   
Vancouver to become Canada's first city to regulate marijuana shops   
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - Vancouver is about to become the first city in Canada where the business of selling marijuana will be regulated and permitted. Even though the drug is illegal in Canada and technically only available to people with federally-issued medical ...

City hall ponders new rules for Vancouver medicinal-marijuana industry   The Province
Vancouver sprouting tougher rules for fast-growing medical pot stores   CTV News
Vancouver's marijuana-industry leaders greet the city's proposed dispensary ...   Straight.com
24 Hours Vancouver   
Vancouver Courier   
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www.insideottawavalley.com/
   
Cancer-stricken mother brings terminal tale to Relay kick-off   
www.insideottawavalley.com/
Jillian O'Conner holds her two-and-a-half-month old son Declan, her third child, whom she carried while she was also battling cancer, in a hallway at St. John Catholic High School in Perth after her presentation at the Relay for Life campaign kick-off assembly ...

Wife's cancer battle sends man on 1500-mile mission   Yuma Sun
Relay for Life revives funny tradition   Oconee Enterprise
Relay for life raises funds to fight cancer   Brownsville Herald
Setonian   
Mason City Globe Gazette   
The Daily Citizen   
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Edmonton Journal
   
Young boy reunited with paramedics who saved his life   
Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - Shelly Nelson has been stealing glances through ambulance windows for nearly five years, hoping to find the paramedics who saved her grandson's life. Nelson delivered baby Talon — born premature at 24 weeks — in her living room on May ...

Edmonton family meet paramedics who saved newborn's life five years ago   MetroNews Canada
Four year old meets responders that saved his life   630ched.com
Edmonton paramedics reunited with baby they helped save   Edmonton Sun
Globalnews.ca   
CBC.ca   
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BlackburnNews.com
   
Organ Donation Stressed   
BlackburnNews.com
CKHA Pres. and CEO Colin Patey and CKPS Constable Renee Cowell kick off a campaign for organ donation awareness. Apr 21 2015. (Photo by Simon Crouch). Another boost of awareness about the need to register for organ and tissue donations from ...

Organ Transplants: The Ultimate Gift   KRWG

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CBC.ca
   
Nurses warn patient care is at risk on Vancouver Island   
CBC.ca
B.C. Nurses' Union is sounding the alarm over nurse staffing hours and says the new health-care model is putting patients at risk on Vancouver Island. The union fears more hospitals in B.C. will began using what they call a "cost-saving measure" and it began ...

Nurses warn 'failed' cost-saving model puts B.C. patients at risk   MetroNews Canada
Nurses being replaced with care aides, affecting patient care: Union   News1130
Nurses fight “excessive” workload   CKNW News Talk 980

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Toronto Sun
   
Hearing Friday in case of mom who refused chemo for girl, 11   
Toronto Sun
BRANTFORD, Ont. — The case of an ill Six Nations girl whose mother chose to seek traditional healing over chemotherapy for her daughter is heading back to court Friday. Justice Gethin Edward ruled last November that the girl's family had a constitutional ...

COURT: Hearing Friday in case of ill Six Nations girl   Brantford Expositor
Case of aboriginal girl taken off chemo back in court Friday   Hamilton Spectator
Parties expected to make 'joint submission' on Friday in case of aboriginal girl ...   OurWindsor.ca

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Hamilton Spectator
   
Is Hamilton a 'Happy City?' Sort of, report says   
Hamilton Spectator
Supercrawl is the type of community event that helps Hamiltonians have a sense of "belonging," a measure of a 'happy city.' next play/pause pre 1/1. Hamilton Spectator. With its giant smokestack and remote location at the top of Georgian Bay, few would ...

The happiest city in Canada is . . . Sudbury   Toronto Star
Tuesday's reasons to fear for humanity: Canada's happiest people live in ...   National Post

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Calgary Herald
   
Futuristic bike allows people in Calgary with paralyzed legs to cycle   
Calgary Herald
Amanda Timm rolls her wheelchair to a large exercise bike in a small University of Calgary room, and uses her hands to lift her feet onto the bicycle's black pedals. The red-headed student straps her legs and wheelchair in place, then sticks four small grey ...

Paralyzed patients in Calgary are able to cycle again with a new exercise bike   MetroNews Canada
University of Calgary's kinesiology department opens access to electrical ...   Calgary Sun
Paralyzed patients can cycle again with new $35K bike from U of C   Globalnews.ca

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