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• U.S. posts drugs under safety probe

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:16pm EDT

  Health officials in the U.S. on Friday began publishing a quarterly list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential side-effects, with the aim of keeping doctors and patients better informed.

• Manitoba, Ottawa come to agreement on 'Jordan's Principle'

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:01pm EDT

  The provincial and federal governments have reached an agreement aimed at putting jurisdictional issues aside when dealing with children with severe disabilities who live on First Nations reserves.

• Extend power to admit mentally ill, medical ethicist urges

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:21pm EDT

  Doctors in all provinces should be able to admit someone to prevent physical or mental deterioration of the patient, a medical ethicist told a psychiatric conference in Vancouver on Friday.

• New methadone clinic takes Pembroke by surprise

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:17pm EDT

  Business owners and politicians in an eastern Ontario town are complaining they were given little or no notice that a drug addiction treatment clinic was moving in downtown.

• Signs of Down syndrome found early in cell development

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:18pm EDT

  Down syndrome may result from early developmental changes in embryonic stem cells, according to researchers who hope the genetic findings could lead to therapeutic clues.

• Food watchdog updates cheese recall for listeriosis

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:37pm EDT

  Canada's food watchdog has released an updated list of cheeses recalled by Ivanhoe Cheese Inc. for listeriosis contamination.

• Camps for kids with cancer, disabilities, served meat in recent recall

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 9:25am EDT

  About 480 children in New Brunswick who attended summer camps for sick and physically disabled kids may have eaten meat products since recalled for listeria contamination.

• Listeria warning for Labrador

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 7:33am EDT

  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has warned people who shop in Happy Valley-Goose Bay that bologna may be contaminated with listeria.

• Liberals call for Ritz's resignation over listeriosis outbreak

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:18pm EDT

  The Liberal party is calling for the resignation of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, accusing him of staging a coverup over changes to food safety inspections.

• Boost antifungal warnings on arthritis drugs: FDA

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:43pm EDT

  Stronger warnings need to be put on four medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and other conditions following the deaths of 12 people who contracted fungal infections, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.

• Women who binge drink more likely to engage in unsafe sex: study

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:07pm EDT

  A U.S. study says women who have more than five alcoholic drinks at one sitting are at increased risk of having unsafe sex and contracting sexually transmitted infections.

• Seniors' exercise program ends as funding runs out

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 4:44pm EDT

  An exercise class for seniors in Cape Breton has petered out now that the funding is gone.

• C-section reduces mother's response to baby: study

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 4:25pm EDT

  Mothers who push to give birth may be more responsive to the cry of their babies than those mothers who elect to have a caesarean birth, a brain-scanning study suggests.

• Court upholds protection law for women, abortion clinics in B.C.

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 3:47pm EDT

  The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to the so-called bubble-zone law aimed at protecting women's access to abortion clinics in the province.

• Labs easy target, former manager says

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:43pm EDT

  The Cameron inquiry heard testimony Thursday of drastic budget cuts at what would become part of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority, now at the centre of public medical scandal.

• Dutch medical isotopes unavailable until end of October, company says

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:40pm EDT

  Cancer patients in Europe may face a longer wait for diagnostic tests and treatments as a nuclear reactor in the Netherlands that supplies medical isotopes extended its shutdown for potential safety reasons.

• Bubble kits sold at CNE may cause euphoria, hallucinations

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:03am EDT

  Health Canada is warning caregivers who may have purchased solvent-based bubble or balloon-blowing kits at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition against using the products because they could pose serious health hazards to children.

• Health officers considering cold shoulder for cold cuts

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 10:49am EDT

  In the wake of a massive listeria outbreak believed to have killed 13 Canadians, provincial chief health officers have been talking about taking deli meats off the menus of health institutions.

• Ivanhoe cheese Inc. recalls products for listeria contamination

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:39am EDT

  Canada's food watchdog and Ivanhoe Cheese Inc. on Wednesday issued a recall of certain cheese products distributed in Ontario because they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.

• Defibrillator shocks signal worsening condition

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 6:20pm EDT

  Implanted defibrillators can provide a lifesaving shock to the heart patients wearing them, but those people should inform doctors when it happens because it could be a sign their heart condition is deteriorating, two recent studies suggest.

• PM pledges listeriosis probe as death toll rises to 13

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 6:14pm EDT

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised an independent investigation will be launched into the deadly outbreak of listeriosis that sparked a nationwide recall of meat products.

• Airport closure could hurt access to health care: northern Alberta leaders

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 4:25pm EDT

  Mayors and chiefs from northern Alberta communities vowed they will fight any plan to shut down Edmonton City Centre Airport, a public hearing heard Tuesday.

• Hiring advanced paramedics a challenge amid competition, hazards

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 3:39pm EDT

  The Ottawa Paramedic Service is trying to hire 60 advanced care paramedics, but is having trouble finding enough candidates.

• 3 more West Nile cases diagnosed in Manitoba

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 3:37pm EDT

  West Nile virus has been diagnosed in three more Manitobans, bringing the total number of human cases in the province this year to nine.

• Blood calcium levels may be tipoff for deadly prostate cancer

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 2:44pm EDT

  Men with too much calcium in their blood could be at much higher risk for fatal prostate cancer, a new study suggests.

• 'Some concern' over BPA's effects on human growth: U.S. report

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 1:18pm EDT

  U.S. government toxicology experts on Wednesday expressed 'some concern' over bisphenol A, a chemical used in plastic baby bottles, saying it may be linked to health and developmental problems in children.

• Province told N.L. cancer society to back off, director says

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 12:07pm EDT

  The head of the Canadian Cancer Society in Newfoundland and Labrador says senior provincial government officials tried to silence him on the faulty breast cancer test controversy, now at the heart of a public inquiry.

• Hunting days pose challenge for Inuit health surveyers

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 10:14am EDT

  Researchers working on a comprehensive Inuit health survey in the North say their project has been largely successful so far this year, although good weather has sometimes meant fewer participants were available.

• Hunting days pose challenge for Inuit health surveyors

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 10:14am EDT

  Researchers working on a comprehensive Inuit health survey in the North say their project has been largely successful so far this year, although good weather has sometimes meant fewer participants were available.

• Mushrooms recalled for possible listeria contamination

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 8:40am EDT

  Canada's food watchdog along with Ravine Mushroom Farms Inc. issued a recall of Fresh Obsessions brand Ready To Serve Pre-washed Sliced White Mushrooms for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.