Les médecins québécois étudieront les économies dans les pratiques médicales

The Quebec government has signed agreements with two of the province's medical federations which aim to lower health care costs over the next 20 months without reducing insured services. The government hopes to save more than $60 million by measures such as reducing specialists' billings by 1%, instituting more efficient medical practices, and limiting complete medical examinations to one per patient per year.     

Deux nouveaux cas d'érythrémie familiale: Association de l'érythrémie et d'une hémopathie maligne

The literature on benign familial erythremia is reviewed and two cases are reported. One of the patients developed acute leukemia. The author considers that this form of erythremia is not truly benign, although in the majority of cases it is compatible with a normal life-span.