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Acai products carry undisclosed drug
Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago
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Images of some of the adulterated Acai Berry products. (Health Canada) Canadians should not use certain Acai Berry products because they may contain an undeclared prescription medication for erectile dysfunction, Health Canada says.
Tags: Health Canada, Acai Berry, Canada, Toronto, Health Medical Pharma, PDE5 inhibitors, Adverse effect, Pfizer, Sildenafil, Fruit, Aￃﾧaￃﾭ Palm, Citrates, Euterpe
Health Canada advises parents to stop using hammock bed for babies
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Health Canada issued on Tuesday an urgent advisory to parents to immediately stop using Amby Baby Motion Beds after two infants in the United States recently suffocated in the hammock. The products "should be disassembled and disposed of in such a way...
Tags: Health Canada, Canada, Ottawa, Infant, Hammock, Infancy, Beds, Childhood, Latin America, Ship construction
Product safety bill faces herbal `tea party'
Belleville :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Toymakers are the biggest target of tougher consumer product safety legislation, but the natural health products industry has been bombarding politicians with emails against giving inspectors power to recall dangerous goods. "(This) is the Boston Tea...
Tags: products safety, consumer products, Health Canada, Canada, Belleville, Product recall, Healthcare, Politics, Dietary supplement, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Internet activism, Health, Consumer Product Safety Act, Health freedom movement
Gay men win stem cell fight
Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Having lost a relative to Canada's tainted blood scandal, Lorne Neudorf understands the importance of a safe blood supply. Neudorf, 27, who recently began the process of joining the network of potential stem cell donors. In October, the CBS began allowing...
Tags: stem cells, CBS, Lorne Neudorf, Jennifer Philippe, gay men, blood donation, tainted blood, blood products, Health Canada, Canada, Toronto, Health Medical Pharma, Blood, Cord blood bank, Canadian Blood Services, Donation, Hematology, Blood banks, Transfusion medicine
Scientists protest appointment of Pfizer boss to health panel
Halifax :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Beaudet told the House of Commons health committee last week that Prigent is "a superb addition" to the council and was appointed "because of his vast knowledge, his unique experience and his keen understanding of the Canadian and international health-research...
Tags: Steven Lewis, Pfizer Canada, governing council, CIHR, Canada, Halifax, Health Medical Pharma, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Pfizer, Business Finance, Canada Research Chair, Pharmaceutical industry, Pharmaceutical companies, Valdecoxib, Health Canada
Health minister squeezes Liberal senators to pass product safety bill
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Pressure mounted Monday on Liberal senators to pass the government's consumer product safety bill this week so Canada's 40-year-old law can be replaced before Christmas. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq teamed up with consumer and child advocates to salvage...
Tags: health minister, Health Canada, Liberal, products safety, Leona Aglukkaq, liberal senate, Canada, Ottawa, 39th Canadian Parliament, Stephen Harper, Consumer protection, Senate of Canada, Government of Canada, Bill C-51, Politics, Michael Ignatieff, Health in Canada
Canada’s Senators Deserve Praise for Examining Bill C-6
Toronto :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Liberal Senators who are not rushing Bill C-6 through their process without serious examination. Her statement that it passed through the House of Commons with all-party consent and so should pass the Senate that way also, is to assume that the Senators...
Tags: Health Canada, B.C. Canada Latest News, Canadian Bill of Rights, House of Commons, Health Leona Aglukkaq, Canada, Toronto, Minister of Health, Government of Canada, Westminster system, Leona Aglukkaq, 39th Canadian Parliament, Stephen Harper, Senate of Canada, CPAC
The man from Pfizer: Should Big Pharma help steer health research?
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility S hould a senior executive of a large pharmaceutical company sit on the governing council of an institution whose role is to fund health research on behalf of taxpayers? That is a fiercely debated question in the corridors of health research, and one...
Tags: health research, CIHR, Dr. Prigent, Pfizer Canada, governing council, pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer Inc., improve health, Canada, Toronto, Health Medical Pharma, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Pfizer, Business Finance, Health Canada
Senators alter crime bill to go easier on pot growers
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility For the second time this fall, a committee of the Liberal-dominated Senate has amended a Conservative law-and-order bill, eliminating an element that would automatically send marijuana growers to jail for at least six months if they're caught with as...
Tags: Key Liberal, Senate, liberal senate, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Stephen Harper, 39th Canadian Parliament, Senate of Canada, Domestic policy of the Harper government, Social Issues, Leona Aglukkaq, United States Constitution, Consumer protection, Vic Toews, Bill C-51, Health Canada, Law Crime
Health Canada delays natural health product compliance rules
Ottawa :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility Health Canada won't crack down on unlicensed natural health products for sale in Canada for at least another year, despite recent assurances that a new compliance plan would kick in soon. The news, delivered privately to industry insiders at Health Canada...
Tags: Health Canada, natural health, health products, licence applicants, products licence, Carl Carter, Canada, Ottawa, Health Medical Pharma, Natural Health Products, Business Finance, Natural health product, Public health
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