News - Eastern Health
By Tara Brautigam, THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A Newfoundland pathologist working for a health board at the centre of a public inquiry into botched breast-cancer tests has decided to quit - the second to do so since the inquiry began two months ago. Dr.
By Tara Brautigam, THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government took such an interest in how a health board communicated with the news media about problems with breast-cancer tests that it vetted its news releases, a public inquiry was told Thursday.
By Tara Brautigam, THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The former head of Newfoundland's largest health board did not see a 2003 memo that raised red flags about the St. John's laboratory that processed botched breast-cancer tests until four years later, a public inquiry heard Wednesday.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A health board executive expressed concerns last year that the Newfoundland and Labrador government was getting too involved with its operations in the midst of the province's breast-cancer testing scandal, a public inquiry heard Monday.
By Tara Brautigam, THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - More doubt was cast Friday on whether all patients affected by Newfoundland's botched breast-cancer testing scandal have been notified despite assurances by the province two months ago they would be contacted immediately.
