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Letters / BY: Andy Hamilton, MD, June 2013
... the more time to develop relationships. Managers in the health authorities are under enormous pressure to maintain ...
News June 2013
A new report from the Fraser Institute shows that it takes Health Canada nearly a year to grant marketing ap­proval to ...  Federal De­lays in Approving New Medicines 2013 , Health Canada took a median of 355 days to issue a Notice of ... faster in Europe and the United States.  In 2010, Health Canada approval was 448 days compared with 319 at the ...
News June 2013
A recent report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that the percentage of cancer ...
News June 2013
Movember Canada is requesting applications for mental health interventions in the priority areas of ... to date through Movember dollars in the areas of mental health, with additional requests for applications to be ... Reducing the stigma of men suffering from a mental health condition across all stages of life (childhood and ...
News June 2013
... a serious or unexpected adverse reaction because of any health product, Health Canada asks that you report it directly to them. In ... safety information. To report an adverse reaction, contact Health Canada directly at 1 866 234-2345 or visit the ...
News June 2013
... funding from Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The projects will be conducted over the next ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) June 2013
... with select people or groups in areas of our society where health issues are very challenging for all sorts of reasons, ... each of you to find a cause that matters to you, whether health related or not, and start helping out. The world will ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Hossack, MD, June 2013
... Prescribed online. (Go to www.worksafebc.com , click on Health Care Providers, then Physicians, and then Policy & ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... regardless of age.  The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) re­cently noted that they “found no ... program facilitate prevention of an im­portant public health problem at a population level.[ 6 ]  Ineffectiveness ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... for toxins in the edible tissues of shellfish are set by Health Canada and include domoic acid (responsible for ... should report patients with shellfish poisoning to public health agencies in order to facilitate case identification, public health messaging, and harvest management (including product ...