Canada Health News

Dr. Isra Levy said the city's flu assessment clinics are now 'relatively quiet.' (CBC) The City of Ottawa will close most of its special flu assessment centres on Friday thanks to the dwindling number of flu cases. "Their patient load...

Whereas health officials are pushing for an acceleration of the vaccination program,  there is evidence of so-called “unusual adverse reactions” including three recently recorded deaths directly resulting from the vaccine. In the meantime, health authorities have called for the withdrawal...

Canadians ordering prescription medication online are being warned that they may be illegally receiving counterfeit products manufactured overseas by criminal organizations...Duncan Pound said, adding it is better for people to steer clear altogether from Internet purchases of prescription...

This represents a forecast increase of $241 per Canadian, bringing total health expenditure per capita to an estimated $5,452 this year. National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975 to 2009, Canada’s most comprehensive source of information tracking how dollars are spent on...

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...

B.C.'s provincial health officer says the Vancouver Canucks definitely jumped the queue when the players and the team's support staff were given the H1N1 vaccine earlier this week. "They were out of sequence," Dr. Perry Kendall said in a phone...

A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the trial of an Alberta man accused of killing a Canadian Mountie. Emrah Bulatci, 25, is charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 6, 2007, shooting death of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Christopher...

Toronto actress Lisa Ray is preparing for a stem cell transplant to treat her rare cancer. The star of "Water" and "Bollywood/Hollywood" was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, in June and began chemotherapy in July....