New Brunswick Liberal activist Wendy Robbins has died. The 68-year-old passed away Tuesday night after suffering a brain aneurysm last Wednesday. Robbins was the first woman to be promoted to full professor of English at UNB. She also co-founded Women’s Studies, and developed a number of courses on women’s writing and feminist approaches to literature.
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Horizon warning about possible post-open heart surgery infection at NBHC
Horizon Health and the New Brunswick Heart Centre are notifying open heart surgery patients about a potential, but very low infection risk. A device used to heat and cool blood during those surgeries, of which the centre has three, has been linked to a rare bacterial infection. Preliminary tests were positive, but after being worked on they’ve been negative. People who underwent the procedure between November 2012 and November 2016 have a less than one in 1000 infection risk.