Couillard coughs up the cash for infection-fighting nurses
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.
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Quebec hospitals have been ordered to isolate patients who are infected with C. difficile. But according to some patients, that isn&#39;t always happening fast enough.
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FORMER shipyard workers at risk from a killer disease were today thrown a lifeline which could lead to pay-outs worth tens of thousands of pounds.
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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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Premiership footballers are being urged to donate a day's pay for nurses.
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Fear a virulent strain of the C. difficile bacterium has spread beyond hospital walls is being fuelled by a report two Montreal university students are infected.
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At least five Montreal hospitals are flouting infection-control guidelines by sticking patients sick with deadly C. difficile diarrhea in rooms with uninfected patients.
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To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
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QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec&#39;s health minister called the C. difficile bacteria outbreak a &quot;scourge&quot; on Wednesday, saying a six-fold increase in reported deaths linked to the bacteria is a &quot;serious problem.
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Hospital practices are more to blame than how sick a person is for infections acquired by hospital patients, researchers reported on Monday, urging medical centers to do more to curb these infections.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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The woman offering flu shots for $20 in the commons area at Augsburg college seemed plausible enough -- green scrubs, white lab coat, stethoscope -- that some three dozen people
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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering
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The Washington State Nurses Association is protesting a requirement by Virginia Mason Medical Center that nurses, along with other staff members, be immunized against influenza this year or be fired.
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RALEIGH, NC -- A lawyer says two of North Carolina&#39;s largest hospitals are gouging patients who make too much money to get charity care but can&#39;t afford their own health insurance.