2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 Canada English Health


Montreal Gazette
   
Sens owner Melnyk has successful liver transplant   
Montreal Gazette
By Peter Robb and Meghan Hurley Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk underwent a “successful” liver transplant in Toronto on Tuesday, less than a week after his team made a desperate public plea for a donor. The team announced ...

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has successful liver transplant following ...   National Post
Sens owner undergoes successful liver transplant   CTV News

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Live Science
   
Doc group recommends high-value cancer screenings   
ModernHealthcare.com
A doctors' group is trying to clear up confusion over cancer-screening guidelines that have evolved and gotten complicated in recent years. In the recent Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians is encouraging more discussion of the ...

Which cancer screenings do you need? Doctors weigh in on 5 most important   WMTV

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Toronto Sun
   
Ticks found on Toronto islands being tested for Lyme disease   
Toronto Sun
Health officials are testing ticks found on the Toronto islands for Lyme disease. Black-legged ticks were discovered on Algonquin Island late Friday, according to Toronto Public Health (TPH). The ticks have been sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in ...

Lyme disease tests underway on ticks found in Morningside Park, Algonquin Island   CBC.ca
Pet Talk: Lyme disease can be lethal to dogs   OregonLive.com
With arrival of tick season, heightened efforts to prevent Lyme disease   Washington Post
Waterbury Republican American   
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Montreal Gazette
   
Lack of funding behind closing of Côte-St-Luc drop-in centre: memo   
Montreal Gazette
Health officials resorted to closing a popular drop-in centre for seniors at the CLSC René-Cassin at the end of May “because of a lack of funding,” according to an internal management memo. The memo, obtained by the Montreal Gazette, contradicts ...

Closure of Cote St. Luc seniors' drop-in centre will stand: CIUSSS director   CTV News
Seniors' drop-in centre a casualty as Cavendish CLSC ends some services   Globalnews.ca
René-Cassin CLSC seniors' day centre to close   CBC.ca

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Health Canada reviewing whether fruit juice should be dumped from Food Guide   
Times Colonist
TORONTO - The federal government is considering whether fruit juice should be squeezed out as a healthy dietary choice under Canada's Food Guide. The dietary bible recommends that children and adults consume up to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables ...


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CBC.ca
   
NDP critical of surgery changes in Regina   
CBC.ca
A move to temporarily discontinue a short-stay surgical unit in Regina is drawing criticism from the NDP. The eight-bed unit is for patients who are in hospital for 72-hours or less. Another area of the hospital will now be used for patients with short stays.
NDP: Cutting surgery beds the wrong move   620 CKRM.com
Sask. NDP calls for government to reverse Pasqua Hospital unit closure   News Talk 650 CKOM

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Toronto Sun
   
Federal health minister announces more money for pharmacy inspections to ...   
Edmonton Journal
The federal government announced an increase of $13 million in pharmacy inspections Tuesday to help fight the illicit abuse of prescription drugs, a growing public health and safety concern in North America. “This is a preventable and treatable issue.
Feds announce $13 million to keep painkillers from hitting streets   Toronto Sun

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Techaeris
   
Bionic Lens Gives Perfect Vision; Could Render Glasses, Cataracts, Laser Eye ...   
Techaeris
A Canadian optometrist has invented the Ocumetic Bionic Lens which, when implanted into the eye, will give people three times better than 20/20 vision. According to Dr. Garth Webb, the lens would give patients perfect vision and things like cataracts could ...

Science Just Invented a Simple, Painless Way to Get Superhuman Vision   Mic
BC doctor says perfect vision possible with Bionic Lens   CTV News

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St. Catharines Standard
   
NOTL retains 12 beds for long-term care   
St. Catharines Standard
Twelve of the 22 beds lost to locals when the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital closed are being relocated to Pleasant Manor in Virgil. The beds were kept in the system and moved to other hospitals, but 12 was the number of beds used for NOTL patients, says ...

Pleasant Manor pitches convalescent care program   Niagarathisweek.com
Convalescent Care Program considered for NOTL   Bullet News Niagara
New program at NOTL hospital   News Talk 610 CKTB

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CTV News
   
Gay men earn less than straight men, opposite for women: McGill study   
CTV News
A new study finds that gay men earn less than their heterosexual colleagues, while gay women earn more than straight women in similar jobs. McGill University doctoral researchers Sean Waite and Nicole Denier used 2006 Census data and found the ...

Gay pay for straight work   McGill Reporter
Gay men in relationships make less money than straight men: study   Globalnews.ca

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