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30.08.2008 00:02
New research indicates premature infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had a higher heart rate and more trouble breathing than preemies whose mothers didn't smoke.
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30.08.2008 00:02
Public health officials in Nova Scotia say some recalled meat may have been served to hospital patients or nursing home residents.
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30.07.2008
Scottish researchers have discovered that a drug that's in its early stages of testing is effective at dissolving the protein tangles that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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30.07.2008
A St. John's pathologist has told a judicial inquiry she's certain about what caused flawed lab tests involving hundreds of breast cancer patients: errors were made in the procedures used for hormone receptor tests.
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30.07.2008
The hunt is on for a consultant to oversee an $8-million, two-year pilot project to try to reduce waiting times for surgery and diagnostic imaging in Nova Scotia.
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30.07.2008
A "massive dysfunctionality" of communication between parties led to the closing of the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. reactor in Chalk River, Ont., and subsequent shortage of medical isotopes, federal Health Minister Tony Clement said.
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29.07.2008
Neurology patients in central Newfoundland have to travel for treatment this summer, even though equipment designed to help them is sitting in a hospital.
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29.07.2008
A physician has told a judicial inquiry she received little help from superiors in trying to investigate flawed cancer tests in 2005.
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29.07.2008
High humidity is creating a sticky situation in operating rooms in a western Newfoundland hospital, where a dozen procedures have been postponed.
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29.07.2008
Avoiding a situation like the Chalk River shutdown and the subsequent shortage of medical isotopes requires a better balance between public safety and the health of patients, says a report released Monday.
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29.07.2008
More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the U.S. government reported Thursday.
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29.07.2008
A government report showing that Newfoundland and Labrador has more than 1,000 vacant positions for registered nurses is proof positive of a crisis in nursing care, a union official says.
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