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Shop sales of tobacco challenged

2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

An Auckland academic says smoking rates in New Zealand would plummet if tobacco products could not be displayed at shops. Dr Marewa Glover, of the University of Auckland, told a select committee yesterday that progress in tobacco control was poor and it was having a particularly bad effect among Maori. Read More......(read more)

Harawira fires a volley for the smoking battalion

2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

A tobacco giant has been told there should be a statue to commemorate dead Maori smokers killed by "the enemy that lies within our midst". Maori Party MP Hone Harawira told British American Tobacco's managing director Graeme Amey at a select committee hearing on the tobacco industry yesterday that as Read More......(read more)

Alaskans sought Yukon health-care deals: MDs

2010-03-11T12:59:05Z

The Canadian public health-care system enjoyed by Yukoners has been used frequently over the years by neighbouring Alaskans such as former governor Sarah Palin's family. Read More......(read more)

Baby Isaiah dies in Edmonton hospital

2010-03-11T12:18:05Z

Isaiah May, the Alberta infant who had been in intensive care since he suffered severe brain damage during his birth in October, died in his parents' arms just after he was taken off life support shortly after noon Thursday at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital. Read More......(read more)

N.L. lab chief quit over workload, sources say

2010-03-11T12:16:01Z

The St. John's physician who resigned amid a controversy over lab testing at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority wanted to quit three months ago because of an excessive workload, CBC News has learned. Read More......(read more)

Suspended mastectomy doctor will operate

2010-03-11T12:09:04Z

Dr. Barbara Heartwell, a Windsor, Ont., surgeon suspended after performing unnecessary mastectomies, will return to the operating room. Read More......(read more)

B.C. residents sue maker of quit-smoking drug

2010-03-11T11:24:01Z

Three British Columbia residents are suing Pfizer, claiming the company's smoking-cession drug Champix can cause serious psychiatric reactions. Read More......(read more)

Montreal Heart Institute to reduce wait list

2010-03-11T09:24:02Z

A cardiac surgeon at the Montreal Heart Institute says his hospital has adopted measures to get its wait list under control within six months. Read More......(read more)

Invasive heart tests overused in U.S.: study

2010-03-11T07:21:04Z

A high number of U.S. patients given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests. Read More......(read more)

Cancer patients benefit from advance in diagnosis

2010-03-11T04:19:02Z

An international team of cancer researchers has found a way to predict which Hodgkin's lymphoma patients won't respond well to therapies, opening the door to using a less aggressive regimen on those more likely to be cured. Read More......(read more)