Media stories for October 23, 2012

Vancouver Hospital hopes to hand jive its way to a news mammography machine
Vancouver Sun
Pink Glove Dance competition offers a $10,000 first prize. MSJ Operations Manager Anastasia Elworthy and Dr. Zina Kellow are quoted.

Hospital staff dance in pink gloves to win cash
24 Hours
Although the dance moves might need a little more work and the lip-syncing may be questionable, staff at Mount St. Joseph’s are still hoping their self-produced music video will earn them badly needed new work equipment. Drs. Tamara Younger and Zina Kellow are quoted.

Since when is food safety up to the public?
Globe and Mail
If you plan on eating a steak, make sure it is cooked at least to medium. No medium rare, no rare, and certainly no beef tartare. That’s the advice in a Health Canada press release entitled “Information for Canadians on cooking mechanically tenderized beef,” the latest lame response to the tonnes of potentially tainted beef that has been processed and shipped to Canadian stores by XL Foods. To date, more than 2,000 products have been recalled.