2015年11月4日 星期三

2015-11-05 Canada English Health


Vancouver Sun
   
Ian Mulgrew: Methadone patients sue BC government   
Vancouver Sun
Methadone patients on welfare have launched a class-action lawsuit against the B.C. government for charging them fees for their medicine nobody else pays. Although the litigation has several legal steps to clear before proceeding in B.C. Supreme Court, ...

BC clinics charging welfare recipients for methadone, lawyer says   The Globe and Mail
Methadone patient alleges discrimination and targets the B.C. government with ...   Straight.com

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Montreal Gazette
   
Sherbrooke hospice may outsource doctor-assisted suicide   
Montreal Gazette
The Maison Aube-Lumière announced it will start providing doctor-assisted suicide as of Feb. 1, 2016. FRED DUFOUR / AFP/Getty Images. Share Adjust Comment Print. A palliative care centre in Sherbrooke poised to become the first facility to provide ...
Quebec palliative care centre to offer doctor-assisted suicide   Edmonton Journal
Doctor-assisted suicide gets green light from Sherbrooke palliative care centre   CBC.ca

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Toronto Star
   
The case of the man whose cancer came from a tapeworm   
Toronto Star
At first, Dr. Carlos Agudelo saw nothing strange in his new patient, an HIV-positive man who turned up at his clinic in January 2013 with a cough. But when Agudelo found large masses in the man's lungs and lymph nodes, he ordered biopsies. The results ...

Cancer cells from tapeworm spread and cause tumour in man   CBC.ca
Man died with 'tapeworm tumours'   BBC News
A Tapeworm With Cancer Gave Its Tumors to Someone   NBCNews.com
The Sun Daily   
Washington Post   
U.S. News & World Report   
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CBC.ca
   
Opioid treatment to be overhauled by Vancouver Coastal Health   
CBC.ca
Vancouver Coastal Health rolled out a new approach to opioid addiction today in the face of challenges with the methadone system, and the growing problem of fentanyl and other illict drug overdoses. Dr. Evan Wood, the medical director of community ...

Vancouver Coastal Health sets new guidelines for treatment of opioid addiction   Vancouver Sun
New front in addiction fight   Castanet.net
New guidelines give hope to opioid addicts   Comox Valley Record

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CBC.ca
   
Pulling quills from speared dogs took 4 hours   
CBC.ca
It took four hours to remove all the quills from two dogs that were seriously injured by a porcupine. "That's an extreme case," Dr. Tanya Marshall, of TM'z Veterinary Clinic, said Wednesday, talking about the recent care two dogs needed. "Most quilled ...
Vet bills piling up for Sask. man after dogs tussle with porcupine   CTV News
Prickly pups: Dogs injured by porcupine quills   New Zealand Herald
Dogs v porcupine: family pets come off second best   Sydney Morning Herald
Fox 32 Chicago   
National Post   
GoFundMe   
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The Globe and Mail
   
Toronto city council outlaws hookah bars, bans shisha smoking in lounges   
The Globe and Mail
Toronto is banning shisha smoking in lounges and restaurants, becoming the latest Canadian city to outlaw the hookah. City councillors overwhelmingly endorsed the public-health-inspired ban Wednesday, rejecting a proposed compromise. The prohibition ...

City bans hookah smoking inside licensed businesses   Toronto Sun
Toronto city council votes to ban hookah use as of April 1   CBC.ca
Toronto council bans hookah smoking in city businesses   Toronto Star
Newstalk 1010   
CTV News   
MetroNews Canada   
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Irish Times
   
Irish health outcomes are among worst in the West   
Irish Times
Irish health outcomes are among the worst in the western world, despite improvements in recent years, according to an OECD report. Ireland ranks in the bottom third internationally in many of the measures of health performance contained in Health at a ...

Cancer survival rates poor, finds study   Irish Examiner
UK's health care falling behind rest of the world because front-line staff are ...   Daily Mail
'High-priced drugs are stretching health budgets'   Daily Times
Jamaica Observer   
CBC.ca   
BBC News   
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CBC.ca
   
Mom of Saskatoon man who died of fentanyl overdose welcomes antidote kits   
CBC.ca
The mother of a young man who died from a fentanyl overdose says she's pleased to see Naloxone kits come to Saskatoon. "I'm actually quite happy about it," Faye Tomlinson said. Her son Stefan died after taking fentanyl in February. Joelle Tomlinson ...
Saskatchewan offers take-home kits with antidote for opioid overdoses   CTV News
Province to offer anti-overdose kits to users of fentanyl and other powerful ...   Regina Leader-Post
Saskatoon to offer anti-overdose kits   Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Globalnews.ca   
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Montreal Gazette
   
Sterilization problem at St. Mary's Hospital damaged instruments: source   
Montreal Gazette
St. Mary's Hospital might have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new operating-room instruments after a major problem with its sterilization system caused damage to its surgical kits, the Montreal Gazette has learned. Surgeons at the ...

Dust forces St. Mary's Hospital to delay surgeries   CTV News
St. Mary's Hospital investigating surgical equipment sterilization problems   CBC.ca
Surgery slowdown at St. Mary's hospital due to black dust   Toxcy
CJAD   
Canada NewsWire (press release)   
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Am730 Vancouver Traffic News
   
BC's spending on seniors' care will soar to nearly $15B by 2046, report says   
Am730 Vancouver Traffic News
Spending on seniors' care across all provinces is projected to increase six-fold to $177 billion by 2046. That's the latest findings in a Conference Board of Canada report. Louis Theriault, vice-president, public policy, projects B.C.'s spending on ...
Report Warns of Significant Senior Care Demand by 2026   KelownaNow
Future care for Canadian seniors: demand and expenditures expected to rise ...   NorthumberlandView.ca (press release) (registration) (blog)
Cost of aging population set to explode: report   News1130
rabble.ca (blog)   
The Conference Board of Canada   
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