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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced $30 million in federal contributions over five years for research and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries.
Prime Minister Harper celebrates 20th Anniversary of Rick Hansen's Man In Motion World Tour with commitment to SCI Translational Research Network
“Canada’s New Government is proud to support the efforts of Rick Hansen – a true Canadian hero,” said the Prime Minister. “This funding will further aid the Foundation’s efforts to make an immediate, positive difference for Canadians living with spinal cord injuries.”
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced $30 million in federal contributions over five years for research and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries.
Sharing a stage with Rick Hansen, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his 40,000-kilometre Man in Motion tour, Harper said the bulk of the money will go to the Spinal Cord Injury Translative Research Network for spinal cord injury research.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - Draxis Health Inc. (TSX:DAX) announced Friday that is has submitted an abbreviated new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Tc-99m Sestamibi nuclear medicine imaging agent.
Tc-99m Sestamibi is used in imaging to evaluate blood flow to the heart in patients undergoing cardiac tests.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Girls jumping rope chant "one less, one less," in TV commercials for the new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, vowing they will be one less cancer patient.
But in the real world, Gardasil is getting used less than doctors would like. Pediatricians and gynecologists from Arizona to New York are refusing to stock Gardasil because of its $360 price for the three doses required and "totally inadequate" reimbursement from most insurers.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that all schoolgirls be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
By issuing an executive order, Perry apparently sidesteps opposition in the legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way parents raise their children.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - After three years of fighting bird flu, some poor Asian countries must face a painful health dilemma: whether to spend millions of dollars to replace expiring drug stockpiles for a pandemic that may never come.
Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines will be the first on the front lines to see their stocks of Tamiflu medicine expire by year's end. Countries worldwide have been racing to stockpile the antiviral, which experts hope might help fight a pandemic flu, but no one knows for sure whether it will actually work.
ATLANTA (CP) - Layered and targeted measures to limit the opportunities for influenza to spread within communities, activated early, should flatten the spike of flu cases during a pandemic, allowing hospitals to better cope and critical infrastructure to continue to function, a report released Thursday suggests.
The U.S. report, which tailors recommendations based on the severity of a pandemic, said measures like closing schools wouldn't be necessary in a mild outbreak. But they would be recommended for perhaps as long as three months in the face of devastating disease rates and high numbers of deaths.
VICTORIA (CP) - Four babies are struggling to live while a furious debate rages outside their hospital room about religious freedom and the power of the state to protect its citizens.
The four babies are the survivors of Vancouver sextuplets born last month almost three months premature. The parents are Jehovah's Witnesses who say they were horrified when the government seized custody of three of them and gave two blood transfusions, a procedure their religion forbids.
TORONTO (CP) - Although Ottawa and the provinces have made good on some promises to improve the health-care system, governments have failed in one key commitment - to keep Canadians up to date on their progress, says the Health Council of Canada.
In a report released Thursday, the council said the public has no sense of how health-care services have been improved since the 2003 First Ministers' Accord that pledged to renew the system and boosted funding by billions of dollars.
QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec's welfare recipients and poorest seniors will get free prescription drugs starting in July.
Health Minister Philippe Couillard said today in Quebec City the new policy will help almost 300,000 people, including 250,000 welfare recipients and about 29,000 low-income seniors. Couillard said the aim of the new policy is to "balance economic development with social justice."
AUSTIN (AP) - Whole Foods Market Inc. is recalling 6,000 jars of its 365 Everyday Value Kalamata Olive Tapenade because they may contain glass fragments.
Recalled jars are marked with the number "B.B. 14/09/2009 L 257/06" and have a time stamp between 14:00 and 16:00. Jars with time stamps within this range should be discarded and not consumed, the company said.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster, giving the government access to special funds to combat the disease that has killed 63 people, the planning minister said.
"It has become an epidemic," Paskah Suzetta said Wednesday in Jakarta, where authorities were preparing for the compulsory slaughter of thousands of backyard chickens as part of high-profile efforts to fight the H5N1 bird flu virus. "The president has indicated he will declare it a national disaster so money can be allocated from the state budget's disaster fund," Suzetta said.
VANCOUVER (CP) - B.C. government social workers seized three of four surviving sextuplets on the weekend so they could receive blood transfusions over their parents' religious objections and Supreme Court of Canada precedent, the family's lawyer says.
But the province abruptly handed control of the infants back to the parents Wednesday when they challenged the seizure in court. The parents, who cannot be identified under a court-ordered publication ban, are Jehovah's Witnesses whose beliefs forbid blood transfusions even to save a life.
TORONTO (CP) - Ontario residents are ready for a ban on smoking in vehicles carrying children, and it's time for the provincial government to enforce one, a representative of the Ontario Medical Association said Wednesday.
"What we're finding is that the public is heavily on side for this and is coming more heavily on side with time," said Dr. Ted Boadway, a health consultant for the OMA, which represents 25,000 doctors across the province.
TORONTO (CP) - Joyce Singer says she should have known better. After all, her father had his first heart attack at 34 and her brother at 30. Each suffered several more attacks before dying of heart disease - her father when he was barely into his 50s and her brother at just 37 years old.
The Toronto real estate agent remembers them describing bone-crushing chest pain that ended with an ambulance ride to the emergency department and weeks in hospital recovering from each attack. So when she developed a bit of squeezing pain in her chest, an achy shoulder, shortness of breath and unexplained fatigue, Singer never thought of heart disease.
OTTAWA (CP) - A former member of Parliament and a high-profile immigration lawyer are calling on the Foreign Affairs Department to issue an advisory warning Canadians off of travelling to China for organ transplants.
Former Liberal MP David Kilgour and David Matas, an immigration lawyer and senior legal counsel to B'nai Brith Canada, say they have overwhelming evidence that Chinese officials are killing Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs for transplant.
MONTREAL (CP) - Women in Quebec will now be able to get birth control from a nurse without seeing a doctor.
Nurses will be able to hand out six-month orders for contraceptives including pills, patches and injections. Quebec, like most other provinces, has a shortage of doctors and provincial health officials say nurses are often more accessible than a physician.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The halt of a clinical trial for breast cancer drug tesmilifene is disappointing, but developer YM BioSciences (TSX:YM) will still consider other applications for the drug and has other projects in its pipeline and enough cash for two years, says the company's CEO.
"Clearly there is activity in this drug but it is not in breast cancer and that trial is ended," chairman David Allan said Wednesday in a conference call.
PARIS (AP) - The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
France launched plans this week to spend US$9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About one in three French people suffer from them, the ministry says.
http://www.canadaeas...articleID=99043
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced $30 million in federal contributions over five years for research and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries.
Sharing a stage with Rick Hansen, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his 40,000-kilometre Man in Motion tour, Harper said the bulk of the money will go to the Spinal Cord Injury Translative Research Network for spinal cord injury research.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - Draxis Health Inc. (TSX:DAX) announced Friday that is has submitted an abbreviated new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Tc-99m Sestamibi nuclear medicine imaging agent.
Tc-99m Sestamibi is used in imaging to evaluate blood flow to the heart in patients undergoing cardiac tests.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Girls jumping rope chant "one less, one less," in TV commercials for the new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, vowing they will be one less cancer patient.
But in the real world, Gardasil is getting used less than doctors would like. Pediatricians and gynecologists from Arizona to New York are refusing to stock Gardasil because of its $360 price for the three doses required and "totally inadequate" reimbursement from most insurers.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that all schoolgirls be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
By issuing an executive order, Perry apparently sidesteps opposition in the legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way parents raise their children.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - After three years of fighting bird flu, some poor Asian countries must face a painful health dilemma: whether to spend millions of dollars to replace expiring drug stockpiles for a pandemic that may never come.
Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines will be the first on the front lines to see their stocks of Tamiflu medicine expire by year's end. Countries worldwide have been racing to stockpile the antiviral, which experts hope might help fight a pandemic flu, but no one knows for sure whether it will actually work.
ATLANTA (CP) - Layered and targeted measures to limit the opportunities for influenza to spread within communities, activated early, should flatten the spike of flu cases during a pandemic, allowing hospitals to better cope and critical infrastructure to continue to function, a report released Thursday suggests.
The U.S. report, which tailors recommendations based on the severity of a pandemic, said measures like closing schools wouldn't be necessary in a mild outbreak. But they would be recommended for perhaps as long as three months in the face of devastating disease rates and high numbers of deaths.
VICTORIA (CP) - Four babies are struggling to live while a furious debate rages outside their hospital room about religious freedom and the power of the state to protect its citizens.
The four babies are the survivors of Vancouver sextuplets born last month almost three months premature. The parents are Jehovah's Witnesses who say they were horrified when the government seized custody of three of them and gave two blood transfusions, a procedure their religion forbids.
TORONTO (CP) - Although Ottawa and the provinces have made good on some promises to improve the health-care system, governments have failed in one key commitment - to keep Canadians up to date on their progress, says the Health Council of Canada.
In a report released Thursday, the council said the public has no sense of how health-care services have been improved since the 2003 First Ministers' Accord that pledged to renew the system and boosted funding by billions of dollars.
QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec's welfare recipients and poorest seniors will get free prescription drugs starting in July.
Health Minister Philippe Couillard said today in Quebec City the new policy will help almost 300,000 people, including 250,000 welfare recipients and about 29,000 low-income seniors. Couillard said the aim of the new policy is to "balance economic development with social justice."
AUSTIN (AP) - Whole Foods Market Inc. is recalling 6,000 jars of its 365 Everyday Value Kalamata Olive Tapenade because they may contain glass fragments.
Recalled jars are marked with the number "B.B. 14/09/2009 L 257/06" and have a time stamp between 14:00 and 16:00. Jars with time stamps within this range should be discarded and not consumed, the company said.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster, giving the government access to special funds to combat the disease that has killed 63 people, the planning minister said.
"It has become an epidemic," Paskah Suzetta said Wednesday in Jakarta, where authorities were preparing for the compulsory slaughter of thousands of backyard chickens as part of high-profile efforts to fight the H5N1 bird flu virus. "The president has indicated he will declare it a national disaster so money can be allocated from the state budget's disaster fund," Suzetta said.
VANCOUVER (CP) - B.C. government social workers seized three of four surviving sextuplets on the weekend so they could receive blood transfusions over their parents' religious objections and Supreme Court of Canada precedent, the family's lawyer says.
But the province abruptly handed control of the infants back to the parents Wednesday when they challenged the seizure in court. The parents, who cannot be identified under a court-ordered publication ban, are Jehovah's Witnesses whose beliefs forbid blood transfusions even to save a life.
TORONTO (CP) - Ontario residents are ready for a ban on smoking in vehicles carrying children, and it's time for the provincial government to enforce one, a representative of the Ontario Medical Association said Wednesday.
"What we're finding is that the public is heavily on side for this and is coming more heavily on side with time," said Dr. Ted Boadway, a health consultant for the OMA, which represents 25,000 doctors across the province.
TORONTO (CP) - Joyce Singer says she should have known better. After all, her father had his first heart attack at 34 and her brother at 30. Each suffered several more attacks before dying of heart disease - her father when he was barely into his 50s and her brother at just 37 years old.
The Toronto real estate agent remembers them describing bone-crushing chest pain that ended with an ambulance ride to the emergency department and weeks in hospital recovering from each attack. So when she developed a bit of squeezing pain in her chest, an achy shoulder, shortness of breath and unexplained fatigue, Singer never thought of heart disease.
OTTAWA (CP) - A former member of Parliament and a high-profile immigration lawyer are calling on the Foreign Affairs Department to issue an advisory warning Canadians off of travelling to China for organ transplants.
Former Liberal MP David Kilgour and David Matas, an immigration lawyer and senior legal counsel to B'nai Brith Canada, say they have overwhelming evidence that Chinese officials are killing Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs for transplant.
MONTREAL (CP) - Women in Quebec will now be able to get birth control from a nurse without seeing a doctor.
Nurses will be able to hand out six-month orders for contraceptives including pills, patches and injections. Quebec, like most other provinces, has a shortage of doctors and provincial health officials say nurses are often more accessible than a physician.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The halt of a clinical trial for breast cancer drug tesmilifene is disappointing, but developer YM BioSciences (TSX:YM) will still consider other applications for the drug and has other projects in its pipeline and enough cash for two years, says the company's CEO.
"Clearly there is activity in this drug but it is not in breast cancer and that trial is ended," chairman David Allan said Wednesday in a conference call.
PARIS (AP) - The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
France launched plans this week to spend US$9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About one in three French people suffer from them, the ministry says.
http://www.canadaeas...articleID=99043
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