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Love the Glove: Glove use in hospitals appears to cut risk of needlestick injury
TORONTO - Wearing surgical gloves may substantially lower a health-care worker’s risk of experiencing a needlestick injury or injury with another type of instrument capable of breaking the skin, a new study suggests. The work, by Canadian and U.S. researchers, suggests glove wearing by healt...
Saturday , July 31, 2010


Decision to hold public hearing on Bruce Power plan called victory for residents
OWEN SOUND, Ont. - A decision by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to hold a one-day public hearing is being called a victory for residents concerned about Bruce Power’s plan to ship steam generators from Ontario to Sweden. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission announced it will hold t...
Friday , July 30, 2010

Mistaken mastectomies report completed and handed to Ontario Health Ministry
WINDSOR, Ont. - A provincial investigation looking into surgical errors and quality of pathology results at three hospitals in the Windsor, Ont., area has been completed. A report by Dr. Barry McLellan, president of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, has been handed over to the Mi...
Friday , July 30, 2010

Chief coroner to review drownings in Ontario, urges people to learn to swim
TORONTO - The office of Ontario?s chief coroner says there will be a review of all drownings in the province in May, June, July and August. Dr. Bert Lauwers says the aim is see if there are common factors in the deaths and make recommendations to help prevent similar deaths in the future. La...
Friday , July 30, 2010

Walking on thin ice? Scientist at climate-controlled lab studies slips and falls
TORONTO - In the midst of a blistering heat wave, most Torontonians aren’t thinking much about frigid temperatures, ice and winter spills. But in a special laboratory at Toronto Rehab, walking is a perilous ? and chilly ? experience for volunteers like Varun Ohri. A 20-year-old from Mississa...
Friday , July 30, 2010

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