Canada Health News

A prescription asthma medication for children is being recalled because it contained less of the active drug than labelled, Health Canada said Friday. Montreal-based Paladin Labs Inc. makes Zaditen, which is recalling lot No.

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...

A new study highlighting gaps in care for Canadians living with diabetes should serve as a "wake-up call" to health authorities across the country, says a family medicine specialist. The study released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information...

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...

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...

Smithers may be a small northern Canadian town nestled in cold, snow-laden mountains BUT it has a great big HEART! For a town of 5,000 it did its part in participating in today's WORLD AIDS DAY. Much of the success...

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...

The current wave of H1N1 activity may have peaked in all provinces and territories, the Public Health Agency of Canada says in its latest assessment on the state of the pandemic. But if transmission of the virus is indeed on...