Ottawa Health News

Canada has a severe shortage of family doctors and urgent actions are needed to increase the number of those doctors to ensure 95 percent of people have a family doctor by 2012, two medical professional groups urged Wednesday.     While Canada...

Ottawa's swine flu vaccination clinics continued to hand out wristbands to high-priority groups Wednesday, while the public health department opened flu assessment centres to help those suffering from H1N1-like symptoms. Pregnant women in Ottawa will be able to get a...

The country's chief public health officer says few Canadians have suffered serious side effects from the swine-flu shot. Dr. David Butler-Jones says that of the 6.5 million people who have received the H1N1 vaccine, only 36 have had serious adverse...

Canada�s top doctor bluntly decried the �nasty� politicking that has erupted around the country�s H1N1 response and challenged federal politicians to hold an open, honest discussion about how to fund future health care. Wednesday, in her first major speech as...

The federal government has approved the Canadian version of the swine flu vaccine for pregnant women and will soon begin allowing other people to get it too. Canada ordered 1.8 million doses of a version of the H1N1 influenza vaccine...

B loc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe has been around long enough to know what he can get away and what he can’t. So he chose his words carefully today in Question Period, shouting “lies, lies, lies” at Immigration Minister Jason...

The federal government has signalled it will reconsider its decision to get the H1N1 vaccine from a single supplier when it comes time to begin preparing for the next big pandemic. "As we move forward, just as we have more...

The second wave of infection from the H1N1 flu virus has caused a spike in deaths in Canada this month, public health officials say. Dr. David Butler-Jones , Canada's chief public health officer, told reporters that as of Thursday, the...

The version of the swine flu vaccine that does not contain a chemical additive to stretch supply and boost immunity is now available for pregnant women across the country. "If you are an expectant mother, the unadjuvanted vaccine is now...

What is good for the goose is good for the gander - that is what we must have heard hundreds of times. Well - till now there was a thrust to ensure that the men became real strong in bed...