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    B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison

    A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern B.C. More...
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    Treating poverty works like medicine, doctors say

    Adding to patients' incomes works to decrease the health effects of poverty, Canadian doctors are finding. More...
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    Gov't defends core of health care overhaul (AP)

    AP - Defending President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul, the administration is urging the Supreme Court to uphold the contentious heart of the law, the requirement that individuals buy insurance or pay a penalty. More...
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    Flaherty, finance ministers face big task in B.C.

    Finance Minister Jim Flaherty meets with his provincial counterparts in Victoria, and the future of federal funding for health care and pensions is expected to dominate the discussions. More...
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    Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case (AP)

    AP - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out. More...
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    Groundwork laid for health accord negotiations

    The health funding accord between Ottawa and the provincial and territorial governments that expires in 2014 was the top agenda item Friday when health ministers met for their annual meeting with their federal counterpart. More...
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    Obama health care law has unexpected beneficiaries (AP)

    AP - President Barack Obama's health care law created a $5 billion fund to shore up coverage for early retirees, and some of that money is flowing to places you might not expect. More...
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    EHRs are easy prey, but all is not lost

    Christopher Burgess on writing a new prescription for health data trust. More...
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    Coming to a store near you: health insurance exchanges

    By 2014, states must deploy public health insurance exchanges, giving millions of Americans purchasing power that could change the landscape for health insurers. Private retailers are already eying their own online exchanges -- possibly as in-store kiosks. More...
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    Is your company ready for 4G mobile connectivity?

    We will increasingly see users challenging (in every sense) our ability to protect data – and comply with laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Availability Act (HIPAA) as the move to mobile computing continues. More...
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    E. coli strain behind German deaths back in France

    Paris (CNN) -- The strain of E. coli blamed for 46 deaths in Germany appears to have resurfaced in France, the French Ministry of Health said. The new outbreak has sickened eight people, who went to two hospitals in Bordeaux, authorities said. Officials interviewed seven of them, all of whom...
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    Health strikes continue in 3 Saskatchewan cities

    Rotating health care strikes continued in Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert on Thursday, with about 400 workers on the picket line. It's the latest job action from the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan. The union represents about 3,000 workers from a wide variety of health fields...
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    300 Saskatoon health workers on strike

    <div>Some 300 health care workers in Saskatoon are walking off the job Friday. It's the latest job action from the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan, which is in a contract dispute with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations. Talks broke down Thursday between the union...
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    Appeals court judges skeptical of government's health care case

    (CNN) -- A federal appeals court in Atlanta was openly skeptical Wednesday that the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama would survive constitutional scrutiny. A three-judge panel heard arguments in a massive lawsuit brought by Florida and 25 other states. The...
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    1 in 3 Employers Will Drop Health Benefits After ObamaCare Kicks In, Srvey Says

    <div>Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama's federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds. The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the...
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    Unruly man removed from plane in Halifax

    A flight to Cuba was diverted to Halifax, N.S., Monday to deal with an unruly passenger. The plane was heading to the resort town of Varadero from London, U.K., when an incident with a misbehaving man led to it landing in Halifax at 12:15 p.m. The 30-year-old British man was arrested under the...
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    Ottawa paramedics and nurses were treating more than 20 Grade 8 students at a downtow

    <div>Forty-five of them left the Toronto area Wednesday by bus for their year-end trip to the national capital. One girl felt ill on the ride, and by Thursday night many of her peers were throwing up. Siobhan Kearns, head of outbreak management for Ottawa Public Health, said it looks like the...
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    Doctors quit Fredericton sexual health clinic

    Three doctors have quit their duties at a sexual health clinic in Fredericton to protest the province's decision to reduce services. The doctors are upset the province will no longer allow people from the ages of 20 to 24 to use the clinics. The Fredericton Sexual Health Clinic will also see...
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    New Glasgow hospital reopens after bomb threat

    Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow has reopened following a bomb scare Monday that led to the evacuation of nearly 100 patients. The Pictou County Health Authority said police allowed people back in the building at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. The emergency department was reopened at 4:45 a.m. "Except...
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    Capital Health bans Tim Hortons doughnuts

    Doughnuts will disappear from Tim Hortons shops at Halifax-area hospitals this fall. The Capital District Health Authority said Friday the move will help patients, staff and visitors make healthier choices. Muffins that don't meet the Capital District Health Authority's healthy food guidelines...
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