Toronto Health News

HIV vaccine, but once it's available, what will it take to persuade people to get inoculated? Professor Peter Newman, a professor and Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice at the University of Toronto, has been studying what winning...

The House of Commons has taken the first step to allow Ontario and British Columbia to harmonize the provincial sales tax and federal GST on products and services. A popular weed killer sprayed on cornfields across North America turns male...

With H1N1 poised to enter history as the least deadly of four global flu pandemics, some experts are calling for an end to Canada's mass vaccination program. Nature is already achieving what we would hope to achieve by vaccinating, they...

Details of who H1N1 is sending to hospitals and who it is killing show how different this flu virus is from seasonal influenza, the head of the Public Health of Canada said Wednesday. Dr. David Butler-Jones said that where seasonal...

The new plan, which was confirmed yesterday, includes an NHL-sized rink that will be home ice for the Ryerson Rams hockey team. The complex, which will house not only the rink and Ryerson's new athletic centre but also a 70,000-square-foot...

Autistic children as young as 12 months can benefit from an early intervention program, suggests new research. Certain groups of foreign-trained workers, including nurses and engineers, will know within a year of applying for certification whether their training will let...

During the outbreak of the Swine flu pandemic there is evident knowledge that a farmer in Canada may have actually given the disease to his pigs. A plethora of his pigs tested positive for the Swine flu virus. The humorous...

People in the priority groups for the H1N1 vaccine in the northern hemisphere should receive the swine flu shot, the World Health Organization advised on Tuesday. With the H1N1 swine flu vaccine in short supply, concerns are being raised about...

The number of doctors in Canada has risen over the last five years, and the rate of increase is greater than the rate of population growth, says a new report that was greeted Thursday with cautious optimism. "We have obviously...