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10.10.2008 20:05
The boards managing Newfoundland and Labrador's hospitals say they had no choice but to get tough with nurses, following a union's decision to scale back what work its members would do.
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10.10.2008 20:05
A coalition of AIDS advocacy groups are calling on Canada's next federal government to restore funding they say the Conservatives diverted from support programs for people living with AIDS and HIV.
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29.09.2008
People who have a stroke seem to recover faster when they use a mirror to create the illusion that their paralyzed limb is moving alongside a healthy one, a Japanese researcher said Friday.
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27.09.2008
Canada's fertility rate reached a 10-year high in 2006, when women aged 30 to 34 had more babies than women aged 25 to 29 for the first time, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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26.09.2008
Ontario hospitals had 319 cases of C. difficile last month, the province's first hospital-generated report on the infections showed Friday.
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26.09.2008
U.S. and Hong Kong health authorities issued recalls Friday for more products, including coffee and baby crackers, because they may be contaminated with the industrial compound melamine.
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26.09.2008
World leaders and the heads of philanthropic organizations gathered at the United Nations Thursday to pledge nearly $3 billion US to fight malaria in a plan that aims to eradicate the disease by 2015.
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26.09.2008
A young woman whom a judge once described as the poster child of an OxyContin crisis remained in custody in St. John's Friday, charged with committing an armed robbery.
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26.09.2008
The parents of three out of five children with disabilities said their added responsibilities affected employment, and it was mothers who overwhelmingly said they adjusted their hours, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
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26.09.2008
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie says his government is going to build a new hospital in Watson Lake, scrapping its original plans to renovate the existing facility.
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26.09.2008
A police officer shocked a mentally disturbed teenage mother with a Taser to save the life of her critically ill infant, the Vancouver police say.
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26.09.2008
Feeding infants fish before they reach nine months of age may help reduce their risk of developing eczema, a Swedish study suggests.
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