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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE - Oct. 11, 2017
Great expectations Re: the running commentary on the IWK board of directors and the financial actions of the recently departed CEO, I would ask:
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VIDEO: Student leader outlines youth challenges at government mental health announcement
Sharon Chapman never knows what problems will come through her door on any given day.
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N.S. government invests $8.6M in mental health services
Data indicates that IWK between 2011 and 2016 show that the maximum wait time before receiving an appointment was 343 days.
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Why paramedics must spend hours waiting outside hospital ERs
Two of Nova Scotia's major hospitals only achieve the provincial standard for ambulance offload times up to 17 per cent of the time.
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Patients of female surgeons have slightly better outcomes, study suggests
Patients of female surgeons did slightly better following surgery than those whose surgeons were male, according to a Canadian study published in a British medical journal. Researchers studied more th
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Global childhood obesity rates now 10 times higher than in 1975
There are now 10 times as many obese children and teens around the world than there were 40 years ago, and if current trends continue, there will soon be even more kids dangerously overweight than und
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Flu shot still recommended while pregnant
Although a 2010-12 study suggested a heightened risk of miscarriage after the shot, experts have yet to conclusively link the two
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Ibuprofen as effective as oral morphine for reducing pain in kids after surgery: study
The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, enrolled 154 children aged five to 17, who had undergone minor orthopedic procedures
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Canada cited as global number of obese children and teens swells
WHO world report means that nearly 8 per cent of boys and nearly 6 per cent of girls worldwide were obese in 2016, against less than one per cent for both sexes in 1975
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Popular, potent alcoholic drinks landing young Quebecers in ER
Seven years after the U.S. makers of Four Loko, an alcoholic, sugary, flavoured malt drink, reformulated the beverage following a spate of alcohol poisonings, a Quebec company has launched a similar p
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