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Nurses In Ontario demands Safe Disposable Needles

Nurses in the Ontario province of Canada are demanding strict laws to ensure the use of sterile disposable safety needles as they feel that are in the risk of unwanted transmission of blood pathogens. Risk of hospital workers // to blood borne diseases is high due to accidental needle pricks of unsafe needles. The three unions of Ontario, The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the Service Employe...

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research is funded $142 million

Canada to fund $142 million for cancer research facility in Toronto in Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, which was informed by its Premier Dalton McGuinty. The new research facility will act as a network for various cancer research activities in Ontario. The network will consist of // researchers from various Universities in Ontario, where they would discuss and work as a team in providing...

Students wants to extent Tution waiver in Ontario

Ontario College and University will be stopping the Tution waiver which they were giving to their school students for the past two years. The Minister Chris Bentley announced that from next year the students have to pay their tution fees and he said that// the quality of education would be increased in all the schools. The students in protest to this announcement has posted thousands of postcards...

Patients In Ontario Wait Longer For Treatment

The waiting times at Ontario’s hospitals are getting longer, according to Government data which have been leaked. This has been revealed by Elizabeth Witmer, the Conservative health critic.// The waiting time rose from 34 days to 37 days between July and September 2005 for cancer surgery, while it rose from 139 days to 142 days for cataract surgery. The waiting time increased to 22 days for cardi...

Ontario Unprepared To Deal With Flu Pandemic

The Chief Medical Officer of Ontario has announced that it will be difficult for the authorities to contain a major infectious disease outbreak. Many of Ontario's public health units do not have a medical officer working on a full time basis,// and provincial laboratories are both understaffed and operate with outdated equipment. The Province may be incapable of dealing with a major outbreak of a...

Ontario’s Entire Drug System Undergoes a Revam

Ontario plans to revamp the drug system. Health Minister George Smitherman said that he would invest $3.5-billion more to improve the drug program//. He also said that he would introduce more changes that would make the drug system transparent and sustainable. They will also speed up the slow drug review process and ensure patients' voices are heard. The taxpayers have not received fair value for...

Chemotherapy Queues in Ontario Stay Steady

Although wait time for cancer patients in Ontario for radiation has fallen, wait times for chemotherapy are staying steady despite the increasing need//. These were the results of a study released by the provincial agency that co-ordinates treatment. ..Cancer Care Ontario has reported that the system quality index launched last year showed a drop in the median wait time for radiation treatment t...

Ontario Ranks Highest in Free Bird Flu Vaccination Rates

Following announcement of free flu shots in Ontario, flu vaccination rates have doubled to 60%, reveals two new studies// conducted recently. ....Although bird flu vaccination rates have rose in other provinces as well, Ontario topped the list, surpassing all others. This is true even when factors such as age, gender and health status are taken into consideration. Ontario deserves credit impleme...

Ontario minister seconds patient-pay plan for expensive cancer drugs

The idea of permitting hospitals to effect a charge on cancer patients for powerful, intravenous medications, not sponsored by the public health-care //system, is being seriously considered by Ontario's Health Minister. ....George Smitherman said "There's no final decision yet. We've done some due diligence and obviously we're closer to having a policy. And in my heart, I believe it's the right t...

Ontario Medical Association Planning To Lure Back Expat Doctors

Dr. David Bach the new head of the Ontario Medical Association has made getting more doctors into the province his first priority. // He has asked the provincial government to find out what would entice thousands of Canadian-trained doctors working in the US to come home. ....Bach is trying to get back over nine thousand physicians who were trained in Canada, but now work in the United States....

Ontario Addresses Shortage of Transplant Organs

Ontario will soon become the first province in Canada to start accepting transplant organs from people who have died of heart failure//. ..The provincial agency in charge of organ and tissue donations announced that changes in guidelines that allowed accepting donation after cardio-circulatory death (DCD) could potentially expand the potential donor pool by hundreds. ..This move to permit donat...

Ontario Continues Support for Autistic Children

The Ontario Court of Appeal has passed a ruling on the provision of support and services for children and youth with autism.// ....According to Mary Anne Chambers, Ontario's Minister of Children and Youth Services, while there exists some confusion over what this would spell for the families of autistic children, the Ontario government has made it clear that it will continue to provide support a...

Health Care Waiting Period Waived for Evacuees from Lebanon in Ontario

Canadians returning to Ontario from Lebanon will not have to wait for access to public health care.// ..The provincial government has said that it will waive the mandatory three-month waiting period for OHIP coverage for the new arrivals. ..According to the Health Minister George Smitherman the evacuees have undergone a lot of stress and strain and will have access to the "health care they nee...

Burning fires in Northern Ontario Cause Hundreds to leave their Homes

..Raging forest fires have forced over 1,300 people to leave their homes in eight northwestern Ontario communities while firefighters continued to battle// the hundreds of forest fires on Friday. According to Ontario fire officials the situation is the worst that they have ever encountered at this time of year over the past two decades. ..People with smoke vulnerability like children, the elderly...

Ontario Health Minister Censured Over Excess Radiation

Ontario is a province that is home to one-third of Canadians. The health minister of this province is facing the flak for endangering health of children in Ontario.// Children who had to undergo routine CT –scans were exposed to high doses of radiation. Children were exposed to an equivalent of 4,000 x-ray units during an abdominal scan. This is equivalent to the adult dosage, commented Auditor G...

Ontario Plans a New Centre for Disease Control

In an attempt to be prepared to face any kind of unforeseen pandemic, the province of Ontario ,in Canada,is all geared to set up a centre for disease control.// The officials, plan to form the centre on the same lines as the Centre for Disease Control, situated in Atlanta, U.S. ..Canadian media, quoting government sources, reported on Sunday that the provincial government of Ontario, intends to...

Private Health-care Clinics Mushroom in Ontario

Proliferation of private health-care clinics in Ontario has caught the attention of the ministry. Zoltan Nagy, intervening president of the Canadian Independent Medical// Clinics Association, confesses to being aware of five to 10 private clinics which have set up shop in the recent months, but refuses to disclose the names or exact number of clinics operating. ....Many clinics have come up bec...

Ontario Kids Junk Veggies to Vegetate on Junk Foods

Ontario: A perceptive survey has established the prevailing trend among kids of today, who have turned the table on healthy diets, for quick fix snack options.// ....Researchers from university of waterloo conducted an elaborate nutrition survey which revealed the unwholesome truth about eating wrong from a tender age. Parents and kids must know the pitfalls of unhealthy eating, which is a lea...

Ontario Supports OHIP’s Rejection of Claim by North York Ma

An advocate called for an immediate review of the standards and guidelines OHIP uses to decide who gets reimbursed for out-of-country treatments// . ..Ontario Divisional Court supported OHIP's rejection of the claim of a North York man who hoped to recover the $450,000 cost of his life-saving liver transplant in England. The retired high-school teacher will not be able to recoup any of his healt...

Ontario Government Invests $200 Million on Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer is ranked second in the list of ‘deadliest’ cancers, which is a wake up call to evolve superior detection procedures to diagnose the disease in// the early stage. The Ontario government is investing a whopping $200 Million on a screening program for colorectal cancer. This plan will adopt two crucial approaches, targeting men above fifty years of age. ....The envisaged five yea...

Two Brands of Pesto Recalled in Quebec, Ontario

The Quebec manufacturer is voluntarily recalling two types of pesto sold in Ontario and Quebec following the warning given by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to Canadian// consumers not to eat two kinds of pesto – not to eat the Arugula and Blue Cheese pesto and Pesto Rosso Sundried Tomatoes pesto - sold in Ontario and Quebec. ..Produced by a company called Pétales et Cie, the affected produ...

Ontario Encourages More Organ Donations

With a view to increasing the number of organ donors, Ontario’s health ministry is considering// the plan of reimbursement of travel expenses and loss of pay to living donors. The health minister has promised to take a stand on this during spring. ....British Columbia coughs up nearly $5,500 as expense for people who go the extra mile to donate their organs. With this scheme, nearly 43 living d...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

Bereaved families of firefighters who lost their lives to work- related cancers and heart attacks can heave a sigh of relief at last. Ontario’s new labor laws state that they no// longer need to prove the cause of death in order to qualify for compensation due the dead worker’s family. .. The changes of regulations will identify eight types of cancer that will be presumed to have been work-rela...

Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker

A polish migrant in Canada has termed as thrilling and relieving, after four tough years a court victory that entitles him to a compensation of 130, 000 US dollars. ...Ryszard Kolbuc won a lawsuit challenging his insurer Ace Ina Insurer ,when they refused to pay him accident coverage after he got paralyzed, during work. The incident that led to his incapacitation was an insect bite by a mos...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

Bereaved families of firefighters who lost their lives to work- related cancers and heart attacks can heave a sigh of relief at last. Ontarios new labor laws state that they no longer need to prove the cause of death in order to qualify for compensation due the dead workers family. ... The changes of regulations will identify eight types of cancer that will be presumed to have been work-relate...

Air Pollution Stats Filtered in Ontario

It is believed that the air pollution stats provided by the Ontario health department is filtered . ......Air pollution is responsible for 1,700 premature deaths and 6,000 hospital admissions in Toronto each year, Dr. David McKeown said at a news release at the launch of the air quality health index. ...... The politicians from the federal, Ontario and Toronto governments were putting forward a n...