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• 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.