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News and views from the editors of the National Review of Medicine, a bi-weekly medical newspaper based in Montreal, Canada.
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The top 10 Canadian health news stories of 2009
H1N1 flu panic. After the virus emerged in late 2008 and early 2009, the panic began. The fall's flu season began with public-health officials and physicians begging people to get vaccinated lest the pandemic turn out to be anything like previous, de...
CMA-sponsored reward never paid to abortion-assassin informant
Informant feels betrayed over terms of CMA’s $500k offerFor two years, at the FBI’s behest and with a promise of more than $1 million in reward money, an American man infiltrated the secretive anti-abortion terrorist network that backed the elusi...
Is your computer network safe?
Protect your patients by letting the pros protect your computersOn the morning of August 14, a 20-foot-long piece of concrete fell from the third floor of a suburban Toronto office building where several large group practices are located and smashed ...
What\'s in the news: Dec. 7 -- 20 doctors quit to protest Quebec uranium mine
20 doctors resign en masse over Sept-ÃŽles uranium mineA long-simmering dispute in Sept-ÃŽles, Quebec, finally came to a head late last week when twenty physicians announced they will leave the region in protest against the provincial government's ap...
Give up your holiday gifts for overseas medical aid
Two medical aid agencies -- the local branch of Médecins sans frontières (MSF) and Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) -- are both encouraging Canadians to ask their friends and family to donate to humanitarian aid rather than give them g...
What\'s in the news: Dec. 3 -- The WHO\'s new HIV treatment recommendations
WHO revises ART recommendationsThis week, the World Health Organization issued new recommendations on anti-retroviral therapy for adult and adolescent HIV patients. The new recommendations are a major departure from what had previously been in place....
