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• 'The dying have value'
  Gander doctor Eileen St. Croix, who specializes in chemotherapy and palliative care, says she's on call 24 hours a day. "I try to look after as ...
• 'Timing is everything in life'
  Peter Dawe isn't saying he'll never pursue politics again, but it's not his priority now and he's glad he withdrew from the provincial byelection ...
• Kaminski moves office to HSC
  Vickie Kaminski has left the building. The Eastern Health CEO has moved offices from the Waterford Hospital to the frontlines of trauma and ...
• 'Practically at the bottom of the heap'
  Three of the province's four rheumatologists pleaded Thursday for some attention to their plight at the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical ...
• Province seeking international nursing grads
  Health - The head of the province's nurses union says government would be wiser to invest in more nursing seats than pursue international ...
• Tale of two islands
  The Bell Island Ferry Users Committee says it had a positive meeting with area MHA Dianne Whalen Wednesday, but another island in the province is ...
• Disability management challenges employers
  Disability management in the workplace is one of the biggest challenges facing employers, people at a workshop in St. John's were told Tuesday. ...
• Licence buyout not popular idea: sealing official
  There's no widespread support for a licence buyout in the sealing industry, the head of the North East Coast Sealers Co-operative says in ...
• Suit against money lenders settled
  A class-action lawsuit involving money lenders who give payday advances has been settled for $5 million. The lawsuit against Money Mart, Dollar ...
• Medical association begins appeals over specialists
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association (NLMA) began a series of public appeals Wednesday by portraying the plight and dire shortage of ...
• Health spending up by 10 per cent
  The province is spending $2.7 billion on health care in fiscal 2010-11 - a 10 per cent increase from last year - as announced in Monday's budget. ...
• Cancer society, lawyer laud Cameron update
  Thirty-nine of the 60 recommendations of the Cameron report are either done or have substantial progress, Health Minister Jerome Kennedy ...
• Doctors go public with contract proposals
  The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association (NLMA) opened its contract proposals to the media Tuesday and will soon take its case to public ...
• Options limited
  The St. John's mother of a child with autism desperate to prepare her son for school says he's been turned away by daycares in the city. Wanda ...
• Focus on patient flow
  Eastern Health released a $450,000 consultant's report on patient flow problems Thursday, but there are no timelines as to when the public will ...
• 'Let's get past this'
  The Newfoundland and Lab-rador Medical Association (NLMA) is calling for a simmering down of what has become an explosive feud between doctors at ...
• Mistakes can be made, doctor says
  The machine at the centre of the latest Eastern Health testing debacle is a beneficial technology, but labs must keep on top of the pitfalls that ...
• Fallout for failure at Eastern Health
  There has been fallout from the cyclosporine errors for three Eastern Health employees, including the chief of laboratory medicine who has ...
• 'Serious breach' of policy
  Occurrence reports on problems in Eastern Health's biochemistry lab should have been submitted as early as last fall, but no documentation was ...
• New animal laws coming
  St. John's SPCA executive director Debbie Powers was overjoyed Monday when the province announced it would bring in a new animal protection act ...
• Go Travel out of business
  Go Travel South/Go Travel Flights, a company that was supposed to begin direct flights from St. John's to Gatwick Airport in London beginning in ...
• In the pink
  A landmark centre city hockey rink will be pretty in pink Friday night for a charity event by a red hot women's league. The Capital Hyundai ...
• Minister unhappy with mistakes
  Health Minister Jerome Ken-nedy agrees a mistake made with calibrating a machine in Eastern Health's biochemistry lab is unacceptable. However, ...
• More lab errors uncovered
  Eastern Health is facing more testing errors in one of its labs. This time, the health authority is apologizing for errors that resulted from ...
• Opportunities flowing as oil and gas week begins
  There was a sombre beginning to the eighth annual Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Week as tragedies were marked during the opening with a ...
• Cutting bait
  A Department of Fisheries and Oceans Bait Depot in Long Harbour which has ties to the province's Terms of Union with Canada is being sold. ...
• Plan for Woolworths property gets warm reception
  A new proposal for the former Woolworths property in downtown St. John's could bring radical changes to the west end of Water Street. The ...
• We need help now
  The parents of a five-year-old girl with Down syndrome say they have nowhere to turn for help after falling on hard luck and moving to the ...
• Mental health services still lacking
  Seven years after an inquiry report into failings in the mental health system, Eastern Health is still trying to get a mobile crisis unit up and ...
• Breast cancer testing class-action settlement in...
  The breast cancer testing class-action settlement will be in court for approval Feb. 2. Patients affected by the scandal involving hormone ...