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Canada a world leader – in Inuit tuberculosis
Tuberculosis rates among Inuit in Canada may be 90 times higher than in Canada overall, Dr. David Butler-Jones, head of the Public Health Agency of Canada, told delegates to an international gathering in Toronto last week on tuberculosis and indigenous peoples.
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Gore Receives Approval To Market GORE EXCLUDER(R) AAA Endoprosthesis And GORE TAG(R) Thoracic Endoprosthesis In Canada
W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) today announced at the 35th annual VEITHsymposium™ in New York that it has received regulatory clearance from Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Directorate to market the GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis and GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis in Canada.
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$14 Million In Savings Over 10 Years And Huge Health Gains At Canada's Supervised Injection Facility
Canada's only supervised injection facility is extending lives and saving the health-care system millions of dollars, a new study shows. In analyzing the cost-effectiveness of Vancouver-based Insite, a safe injection facility in a downtown neighbourhood where about 5,000 injection drug users live, researchers found $14 million in savings and health gains of 920 life-years over 10 years.
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Health-care fundraising up in U.S., Canada
Last year was lucrative for health-care organizations in Canada, but U.S. groups saw their donations rise more slowly, a new study says.
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IPAC And AFMC Announce Launch Of 4 Indigenous Health Documents, Canada
On December 1st, 2008, the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC) and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) will launch four key documents at the Delta Centre-Ville Hotel in Montreal to support the implementation of Indigenous health curriculum at all Canadian faculties of medicine, and increase the number of Indigenous physicians in Canada.
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LifeSciences British Columbia Recognizes Dr. Michael Hayden, Named Canadas Health Researcher of the Year
VANCOUVER----LifeSciences BC is pleased to announce that one of British Columbia’s pre-eminent health researchers, Dr. Michael Hayden, Director and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, and University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics at UBC has received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Michael Smith Prize in Health Research: Canada's ...
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Dr. Etienne Gagnon Receives CIHR BIOTECanada/Schering-Plough Canada Fellowship for Innovative Cancer Research
OTTAWA----BIOTECanada and Schering Plough Canada are proud to congratulate Dr. Etienne Gagnon of Harvard Medical School on winning this year’s Canadian Institutes for Health Research BIOTECanada/Schering-Plough Canada Fellowship.
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Insite can save Canada's health-care system $20M: Study
Canada's only supervised drug injection site can save the Canadian health-care system as much as $20 million and substantially increase a population's life span over a 10-year period in Vancouver, according to a study to be published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Series winners could lose key player for 2009 start
Reigning World Series champion Philadelphia might lose second baseman Chase Utley for the start of the 2009 Major League Baseball season due to hip surgery he will have next week.
'World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King' sets sales record
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to the mega-popular online game, sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours last week, setting what its publisher said is an all-time record for PC games.
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