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An examination by practicing physicians or other health professionals of the medical necessity, appropriateness, and quality of the health care services ordered or provided by other physicians or other health professionals. The efficiency and effectiveness of the patient care services are also reviewed. It may be conducted while the patient is in the hospital (concurrent review) or after discharge (retrospective review).

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Province looks at remediation of homes

Published December 4, 2008, 9:19 am, Stratford City Gazette

The Government of Ontario continues to refine its provincial strategy for keeping communities safe from the production and distribution of illegal drugs, and as members of the Perth County Task Force heard recently, that includes establishing guidelines for safe remediation of buildings that have housed either clandestine (meth) labs or marijuana grow operations.

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Saving Employee Health Care Benefits: Impossible?

Published December 4, 2008, 9:10 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

BOSTON----Automakers and unions take note: an industry study of 4,700 medical plans spanning 137 employer organizations reveals that by making one simple change to their health care planning process, financially-challenged American corporations – such as financial services or automakers – can slash their overall health insurance costs by 16 to 18 percent while preserving employee benefits ...

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Africa: HIV/Aids and the Continent's Military - Are We Winning This War?

Published December 4, 2008, 7:18 am, AllAfrica.com

In this paper, Azad Essa explores the extent to which Africa's military has been affected by HIV/AIDS. He outlines the varied responses from Africa's armed forces, with a specific focus on recruitment, care and precarious human rights issues pertaining to HIV-positive personnel.

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South Africa: The 'One Man Can Campaign'

Published December 4, 2008, 7:18 am, AllAfrica.com

In South Africa, as throughout the world, gender inequality continues to undermine democracy, impede development and compromise people's lives in dramatic ways.

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Africa: Power, Politics And HIV/Aids in the African Blogosphere

Published December 4, 2008, 7:17 am, AllAfrica.com

About a year ago, CNN and Time declared the identification of male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection as the biggest medical breakthrough of 2007. Having worked on one of the studies that led to this "discovery" several years before, I quickly penned something which was published on Africa News on the 20th December 2007 .

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Coerced medication used in psychiatric care despite lack of clinical evidence

Published December 4, 2008, 6:43 am, EurekAlert!

( Wiley-Blackwell ) More needs to be done to establish sound clinical evidence for the use of coerced medication in inpatient psychiatric care, together with viable alternatives. Researchers looked at studies from seven countries -- the USA, Canada, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Germany -- published since 1987 and expressed concern at the lack of clinical evidence for this "contentious" ...

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Invasive Garden Ants As New Pest Insects In Europe

Published December 4, 2008, 5:12 am, Medical News Today

Northern Europe has so far been free from invasive pest ants, but it seems just a matter of time until Lasius neglectus, a new ant that was discovered in 1990, will reach these latitudes and wreak havoc in parks and gardens of Northern Germany, Scandinavia and the British Isles.

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CIBC Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results

Published December 4, 2008, 4:45 am, CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance

CIBC announced net income of $436 million for the fourth quarter ended October 31, 2008, up from $71 million for the third quarter ended July 31, 2008. Diluted earnings per share were $1.06, compared with $0.11 for the third quarter.

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On the Record / December 4, 2008

Published December 4, 2008, 4:26 am, The Buffalo News

Hires/Promotions/ Honors

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The Drugs And Therapeutics Bulletin Soon To Be Rationed In Wales

Published December 4, 2008, 4:10 am, Medical News Today

BMA Cymru Wales has reacted with incredulity when it was disclosed that a key clinical publication is being restricted to clinicians across Wales. The Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) which is currently sent to all doctors, will soon be rationed.

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  • Reviewing Peer-Review: Will that be the next stodgy institution to go? "Saying that only peer-reviewed articles (or peer-reviewabl e articles) count as science only reinforces the already pervasive notion that science is something beyond the reach of 'normal&# 039; people.
  • The Political Science Peer-Review Survey: If you edit, review or author manuscripts for political science journals, the peer-review process is at the centre of your professional life. Unfortunately, for most of us the process is largely a black box. While everyone has heard (or lived through) tales from the trenches, there is very little hard evidence on how the process actually works. This is why a number of colleagues and I started the peer-review survey project that aims at collecting information on the experience of authors, reviewers and editors of political science journals.

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  • MERLOT: MERLOT stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This site has a variety of learning materials such as interactive maps, audio commentaries, and visual aids for a collection of disciplines. The site has some college level orientation, but can be modified to fit secondary levels (the site also has secondary level materials. MERLOT also has an online community and member profiles.

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