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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to converting patient records into paperless, online files which can be easily shared and transferred between doctors, the province's medical community and opposition Conservatives warned Tuesday.

CHICAGO (AP) - Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal.

VICTORIA (CP) - Early in her career as a judge in Saskatchewan provincial court, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was distressed to realize that many of the young offenders who appeared before her were disabled and didn't understand the consequences of their actions, let alone why they were in court.

WINNIPEG (CP) - Crocs, those quirky-looking but ubiquitous colourful shoes, are becoming all but extinct at some Canadian hospitals.

TORONTO (CP) - Incidents of child abuse and neglect among U.S. army families rise significantly when a parent is deployed to a combat zone and the problem is greatest when women are left behind to keep the home fires burning, a study has found.

VICTORIA (CP) - Victims of a rare form of advanced kidney cancer are getting help from the B.C government, which is the first province to fully fund a new and expensive drug treatment. Dr. Susan O'Reilly of the B.C.

"SCHIP Reauthorization: Key Questions in the Current Debate," Kaiser Family Foundation: The issue brief by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured discusses key questions that are shaping the debate over SCHIP reauthorization. Additional resources on the [click link for full article]

REGINA (CP) - A lawyer is attempting to launch class action lawsuits in two provinces against the makers of Avandia, a popular Type 2 diabetes drug.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) postponed until Thursday a planned vote on legislation ( [click link for full article]

An Ohio Medicaid program was expanded this month to cover beneficiaries in assisted living facilities, but "only time will tell if assisted living becomes a true option" for Ohio Medicaid beneficiaries, the Dayton Daily News reports. Assisted living -- the fastest growing type of housing in the country, according to [click link for full article]