Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (CAHR)

Newly released publication, The Crisis of Chronic Disease among Aboriginal Peoples: A Challenge for Public Health, Population Health and Social Policy.

Free publication available online at www.cahr.uvic.ca/docs/ChronicDisease or for a hardcopy contact Rachel Link at rlink@uvic.ca be sure to state the number of copies being requested.

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Health Canada link for:
Decision on the labelling of Cough and Cold Product for Children.
It's Your Health article with tips on the safe use of all medicines and article with helpful information on the safe use and disposal of medicines.

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Public Health Agency of Canada

Resource information on food safety for pregnant women is available at www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/
  or for French www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/

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Rogers Health Care Group

The Rogers Healthcare Group has launched www.CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, an inter-professional health portal for nurses, doctors, pharmacists and healthcare managers. It is the online home of publications such as The Medical Post and also publishes a bi-weekly e-newsletter NurseNewsline. The mission of the portal is to be the online destination for healthcare professionals, where they will learn, engage and grow individually and inter-professionally to advance better health for all Canadians. French website is available at www.professionsante.ca.

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Moving Palliative and End-of-life Care Forward Conference
was held at the University of Alberta on May 17–21, 2010

To view the presentations from this very informative Conference go to the University of Alberta website at, www.nursing.ualberta.ca/tast/. Once on the website click the Conference information link on the left and then the Presentation selection on the left.

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University of Victoria
School of Nursing presents three Distance Study Modules on Cultural Safety:

Module #1 - web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod1/
Module #2 - web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod2/
Module #3 - web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod3/

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Aboriginal Science Symposium: enabling Aboriginal student success in Post-Secondary Institutions

Article on Support Program for Aboriginal Students. For complete article: www.rrh.org.au/articles/showarticlenew.asp?ArticleID=1324

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William F. Connell School of Nursing
Boston College, Palliative Care Program
Boston, Massachusetts

Palliative Care Program for Advanced Practice Nurses

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