[HTML][HTML] Medical waste-management practices vary across Canada

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News provinces also appear to aim their approach at achieving minimum national standards
for handling biomedical waste that were developed by the Canadian Council of Ministers of …

Mandatory vaccinations: The international landscape

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Latvia also appears unique in that it compels health care providers to obtain the signatures
of those who decline vaccination. Individuals have the right to refuse a vaccination, …

[HTML][HTML] Patient navigators becoming the norm in Canada

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News requirements in the province, although navigators must have some nursing experience
in oncology. In contrast to other provinces, Ontario has focused on integrating a navigator …

[HTML][HTML] Mandatory vaccinations: the Canadian picture

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In New Brunswick, for example, 93.6% of children entered kindergarten in the 2008–09 school
year with the required vaccinations, Phillips writes. In Ontario,“the vast majority of school …

Back to black bag and horse-and-buggy medicine

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Few issues generate such impas-sioned debate as mandatory vaccination policies.
Advocates say vaccines are safe and exemptions should be minimal. Opponents counter that …

Medical podcasts going viral

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maNet in BC that’s been in place longer than anywhere else in Canada. I want to see the data
from PharmaNet in my electronic medical record, and then I can use that data to generate …

[HTML][HTML] Thumbs up and down

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Overreliance on small hand-held devices may be predisposing the current generation of
electronics addicts to early development of osteoarthritis and other potentially chronic joint …

[HTML][HTML] iPhone app an aid in diagnosing concussions

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Developers stress that the app is by no means a replacement for an examination by a
trained professional but they’re hopeful that it could be an effective tool for recognizing a “…

[HTML][HTML] Mandatory vaccinations: No middle ground

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News future, and financial incentives will have to follow suit, the physicians argue.“We prevent
many hospital admissions, we prevent hospital readmissions and we delay and prevent …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of family practice: shopping for electronics

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The office is rewired. The holes have been patched where the electricians gouged out the
drywall and all is freshly repainted. Patients’ health records are glittering on the new laptop …