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Genetic researchers share $500,000 prize for medicine and biomedical research ALBANY, N.Y. - Three American scientists who contributed to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint - an advance that continues to give the medical world a better understanding of human disease - were awarded the country’s richest prize in medicine and biomedical research Wednesday. The... Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Alberta nurses say employer wants cuts in salaries, benefits in next contract EDMONTON - Negotiations for a new contract between Alberta’s nurses and their employer are off to a rocky start. The nurses union says in a release that the opening proposal from Alberta Health Services asks for cuts in salaries, benefits, safe-care provisions and scheduling protections. H... Tuesday , March 09, 2010 B.C. mulls top-dollar health centres for foreigners VICTORIA, B.C. - B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he is considering selling health-care services to offshore patients in the same way the province markets higher education to foreign students. Falcon says he wants to open centres of health excellence in British Columbia that offer me... Tuesday , March 09, 2010 Superbug MRSA on rise in Canadian hospitals as well as in community, study finds TORONTO - There has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of Canadians becoming infected or colonized by the superbug MRSA since 1995, both in hospitals and within the community, a study has found. Researchers who conduct national surveillance of infectious diseases found that be... Tuesday , March 09, 2010 Family of Quebec woman calls for public inquiry into hospital death MONTREAL - The family of a woman who died after a four-day wait in the corrdor of a Montreal emergency ward wants a public inquiry into the state of Quebec’s health-care system. Mariette Fournier died last month after waiting for a bed at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. The 86-y... Tuesday , March 09, 2010
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