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3. Health Canada extends premarket e-submission program
Starting November 1, 2011, Health Canada will extend a pilot program requiring both paper and electronic submissions of premarket review documents for Class IV medical devices to Class III devices, as well, reported Stewart Eisenhart of the Emergo Group.
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2. The siren song of continuous improvement
The implications to policy makers who use such trendy buzz phrases like “continuous improvement” is that doctors and current public policy workers aren’t already working to constantly improve our patients’ health. Instead, we are messy, doing expensive things that involve too much time and too much money, reported cardiologist Westby Fisher.
1. Connecting unexpected dots between cancer and diabetes
Could you also view cancer as a metabolic disorder, like type 2 diabetes? George Daley and his lab in the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s have found some intriguing molecular links that make this a plausible idea, reported Children’s Hospital Boston’s Tom Ulrich.
