Ontario to open nine new MRI sites, buy back more private testing facilities
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OTTAWA (CP) - Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty burnished his credentials as a guardian of medicare Friday, announcing nine new or expanded MRI clinics, while pursuing plans to bring for-profit MRIs into the public fold.
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TORONTO -- Health organizations had a lukewarm reaction to the provincial government&#39;s announcement yesterday of a plan to revamp Ontario&#39;s health-care system to cut wait times and integrate services, saying it lacks concrete action while adding another
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The government wants patients to be given the choice of having an operation in a private hospital by 2006.
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A website aims to allow patients to see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing.
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CALGARY - The Canadian Medical Association says the creation of a Canada Health Access Fund would be instrumental in reducing waiting periods for people in need of urgent medical treatment.
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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- A national coalition of nine academic medical centers has been created to test new cancer treatments in children who don't respond to traditional therapies.
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Researchers at Indiana University, Ohio State University and the University of Missouri have begun a five-year, $8 million project that will help doctors better understand the damage caused by breast and ovarian cancers.
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Canadian officials are calling for proposals to create new drug courts throughout Canada, according to Public Works and Government Services Canada.
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TORONTO - Ontario is launching 10 new projects to create electricity from renewable resources, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said Wednesday.
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TORONTO -- The government is moving ahead with its revised proposal to Ontario&#39;s doctors because the latest changes address concerns raised by doctors who earlier rejected the deal, Health Minister George Smitherman said Monday.
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The Ontario provincial government said  on Wednesday it planned to spend C$150 million to attract  biopharmaceutical research to Canada's most populous province.
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TORONTO - The Ontario government should impose a new contract on the province&#39;s doctors if they won&#39;t agree to its badly needed reforms, the chair of a federal commission on health care says.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A revised offshore deal between Ottawa and Nova Scotia could add as much as &#36;1 billion to the provincial treasury over the next 16 years.
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Canada's MDS Nordion started shipping medical isotopes on Wednesday after a prolonged shutdown of a nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, disrupted the supply of isotopes to health facilities around the world.
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Health care in Canada, and around the world, is set to improve following an announcement that 11 leading medical journals are tightening their rules on publishing studies.
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Scientists are preparing for a large  clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400  patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China  and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibers.
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.