Quebec to watch antibiotic use to curb C. difficile outbreak
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QUEBEC CITY - Quebec may have been hit with more cases of C. difficile infection than elsewhere in Canada because the province&#39;s doctors prescribe more antibiotics, Quebec&#39;s health minister said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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MONTREAL - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 21 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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Preventive antiobiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in children may make subsequent infections more likely to be resistant to drugs, a new study suggests.
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SMELLING faeces could soon play a crucial role in detecting the hospital bug Clostridium difficile, scientists said.  The odour from healthy stools and people with infectious diarrhoea differ in their chemical composition.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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LACOLLE, QUE. - Hundreds of seniors from Plattsburgh, NY took buses to Quebec Friday to receive flu shots. The mayor of Plattsburgh arranged the trip with the help of Bloc Quebecois MP, Claude Bachand.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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MONTREAL - Infection rates from 2003 indicate the Clostridium difficile bacterium may be more widespread in Quebec hospitals, and more deadly, than previously thought.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada is going to start tracking the C. difficile bacterium in 25 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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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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A hospital trust says there have been three more C. difficile linked deaths in its area since the summer.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called C. difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA.
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The Martin government is considering a substantial fund to make it easier for patients to receive treatment outside their home province as Ottawa focuses on reducing
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All patients entering NHS hospitals will be screened for MRSA and Clostridium difficile, Gordon Brown says.