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Medication errors are occurring frequently on pediatric wards, with “devastating” impact on children and their families, concludes a new survey of Canadian hospitals that found four deaths over the three-month span studied, and an average of 20 drug-administration mistakes per hospital ward.

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Bethany is a tax-paying Ontario resident covered by the province’s medicare system, but when she gave birth last month — to a baby who automatically became a Canadian citizen — her local hospital issued a $1,400 bill. The reason? The mother was a surrogate carrying the infant for a couple from Italy. As interprovincial and even international surrogacy becomes more commonplace in Canada, some hospitals have begun charging for the delivery of children destined for outside parents.

Pilots have been falling asleep in the cockpit because of shift patterns which can see them at the controls of an aircraft 23 hours after waking up, a study has found. The findings of a study by Simon Bennett of Leicester University, has rekindled fears that passenger safety could be put at risk by pilot fatigue.

Craneware (LON:CRW), the AIM listed group that sells software to US healthcare institutions that helps them improve their financial performance, said this morning that revenues in the 12 months to June had increased by 34% to $38 million. Adjusted profit before exceptional items is expected to show year-on-year growth of approximately 30% to around $9.9 million. Craneware said its three-year earnings visibility had also increased substantially - rising from $83 million last year to $105 million from June 2011.

MONTREAL — Allegations of impropriety swirling around SNC-Lavalin and Quebec’s construction industry has prompted the Shriners to take greater control of who builds its new Montreal hospital, the philanthropic group said Thursday. The Shriners selected SNC-Lavalin to manage construction of the $127-million hospital that will be built adjacent to a $2.35-billion super-hospital set to open in the summer of 2015.