Quebec antes up to battle superbug
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Antibiotic prescriptions to be monitored Couillard outlines measures designed to prevent another outbreak of C. difficile. Quebec&#39;s Health Department is ready to pump more money into hospitals to help fight the spread of the deadly C. difficile bacterium.
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Montreal - A bacterial infection is to blame for the death of about 600 people hospitalised in Montreal between April 2003 and April 2004, a scientist said.
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Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an &#39;epidemic&#39; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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Montreal health officials believe the deadly C-difficile bacterium is spreading from hospitals into the city. Dr. Sandra Dial says she was surprised to learn that two McGill students became infected with the superbug.
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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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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.
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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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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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Ottawa appears to be opening up to Quebec&#39;s demands to resolve the issue of health care funding, Premier Jean Charest said yesterday on his way into his weekly cabinet meeting.
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In the first six months of 2004, a bacterial strain has killed 109 patients in 10 hospitals in Quebec and contributed to 108 other deaths there, according to health experts in Montreal.
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The Quebec health department has been too slow reacting to the outbreak of C. difficile in hospitals in Montreal and elsewhere in the province.
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Do germs communicate? Many scientists think so and are betting the chatter may hold the key to developing the next generation of drugs to fight killer superbugs.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - Drug-resistant superbugs are   present in Canadian hospitals in higher than expected numbers,   according to a study released on Wednesday, spurring a   recommendation to "hit them early, hit them right and hit them   hard."
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The country&#39;s provincial and territorial health ministers forged ahead today with their push for a multibillion-dollar national pharmacare program despite continuing rejection of the idea from Ottawa.
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Louisiana ranked somewhere in the middle of states in its ability to handle a bioterrorism emergency, improving its standing from last year but still falling short in a study of states&#39; preparations.