CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The Newfoundland and Labrador government announced late Friday afternoon it will give the head of the Cameron Inquiry the extension and the resources she has requested, even after the premier and province's justice minister criticized the inquiry for the amount of money being spent on legal fees.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on to government officials. Barry Dyer, who manages Eastern Health's pathology lab, told the Cameron inquiry on Wednesday that he was asked in November 2005 to help answer questions sent from the office of then health minister John Ottenheimer about "how there could be inaccurate tests for a period of five years without being detected."Ottenheimer's office also wanted assurances that the...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... the Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing in St. John's.The inquiry, headed by Justice Margaret Cameron, is investigating how hundreds of breast cancer patients received faulty hormone receptor test results, which help determine cancer treatment.Dyer was responsible for the day-to-day operations at the lab at St. Clare's Hospital and the Health Sciences Centre, both in...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A senior pathologist at a St. John's lab says no one officially told him that breast cancer testing problems had been uncovered at Eastern Health.Dr. Dan Fontaine testified Thursday at the commission of inquiry on hormone receptor testing, headed by Supreme Court Justice Margaret Cameron.'People were a bit concerned by the fact that it identified issues that could've been related to practice.'—Dr....
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
The inquiry into failures at a pathology lab at Newfoundland's biggest health authority was supposed to be done this month. But Madam Justice Margaret Cameron of the Newfoundland Supreme Court was late starting because of legal jousting over an external review of the lab's work. The review looked into botched tests on tissue from hundreds of women with breast cancer, the incorrect results...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Lab technologists at Eastern Health were never given formal training for breast cancer treatment tests, a former employee said Tuesday at the Cameron inquiry.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The former clinical chief of pathology at Eastern Health concluded his testimony Tuesday at the Cameron Inquiry, saying burn-out is the reason he is on sick leave from the health authority, whose pathology labs are being investigated for generating hundreds of faulty test results.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
A key witness told the Cameron inquiry on Wednesday that he didn't hear many concerns about the quality of laboratory samples at the time when mistakes were made on hundreds of breast cancer treatment tests.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... Park said.The group Park formed is demanding to have its say at the inquiry headed by Justice Margaret Cameron, and has written a letter to her asking for standing at the inquiry.Peter Dawe, executive director of the Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, said he was shocked that the French patients were not getting the information that Canadian patients...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Years of spending cuts have made it very difficult for pathology labs to function appropriately, one of Canada's leading pathologists has told Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry.Dr. Kenneth Pritzker, pathologist in chief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, also told the Cameron inquiry in St. John's that the health care system has ever-mounting expectations of what laboratory science...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
An aide to a former minister of health has told Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry that Eastern Health officials played down the rate of error of hormone receptor tests during a key meeting.Darrell Hynes, who served as policy adviser to former health minister Tom Osborne, also told the Cameron inquiry that he failed to read important documents that showed that Eastern Health withheld...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Premier Danny Williams has again publicly criticized the workings of the Cameron inquiry.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
The level of trust between Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority and the provincial government began to fall apart in the days after reports emerged that Eastern Health had deliberately withheld information about erroneous breast cancer tests, a judicial inquiry has been told.The Cameron inquiry was also told on Tuesday, once again, that officials in the Department of Health and...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Danny Williams said Friday that he has 'disappointed' with Justice Margaret Cameron's behaviour this week during testimony. (CBC)Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams on Friday openly criticized the judge running the province's breast cancer inquiry.Williams was critical of how Justice Margaret Cameron behaved this week while hearing testimony from key aides in...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... and Labrador Medical Association, showed visible emotional strain Thursday while testifying at the Cameron inquiry in St. John's.Ritter told Justice Margaret Cameron that areas beyond specialists dealing immediately with breast cancer testing are also being stretched too thin, with serious implications for patient care."Chronic understaffing and high turnover are not unique...
