By STEWART PATERSON A SENIOR health board official has admitted shortcomings over the Clostridium Difficile outbreak that has led to the deaths of 17 people in the past seven months.

By Eric Eyre ericeyre@wvgazette.com The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department started a formal search for an interim medical director Tuesday night. Health board members are seeking to replace Dr.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The former chief of Newfoundland's largest health board says he was under increasing pressure from the province to cut millions of dollars from his budget just as serious errors with breast-cancer testing came to light.

By Tara Brautigam, THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Executives on Newfoundland's largest health board were divided on whether to tell the public the number of patients who had their breast cancer tests botched, it was revealed at a public inquiry Thursday.

By CAROLINE WILSON WORKERS at a threatened hospital emergency unit have dismissed claims by health chiefs the service is unsafe due to staff shortages. The health board claims the medical assessment unit at the Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, doesn't have adequate anaesthetic cover.