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25 years after HIV virus discovered, AIDS vaccine effort must go on: Bernstein
TORONTO - The despair that set in after the failure of the latest effort to develop an AIDS vaccine has given way to a renewed determination on the part of the scientific community, says the Canadian scientist leading an international effort to maximize global activity in the field. As the...
Friday , May 09, 2008

Choice of health treatment in advance of illness under proposed N.S. law
HALIFAX - Nova Scotians will have the opportunity to determine the course of their personal care in advance of illness under proposed legislation introduced by the Conservative government. The new law will allow people to give instructions on their medical treatment and personal care in th...
Friday , May 09, 2008

Ont. must require hospitals to start reporting C. difficile right away: union
TORONTO - The province is putting more lives at risk by not moving more quickly to require Ontario hospitals to report potentially dangerous infections like C. difficile in the wake of dozens of deaths at a facility in Burlington, Ont., labour critics said Friday. Health Minister George Sm...
Friday , May 09, 2008

UNICEF says Bangladesh to open vitamin A, de-worming campaign for children
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh will stage a massive campaign Saturday to provide millions of children with vitamin A and de-worming tablets. UNICEF says tens of thousands of health workers and volunteers will fan out across the country to run 140,000 centres, including many makeshift ones....
Friday , May 09, 2008

Wait times for chemo in Ontario unchanged despite more spending: report
TORONTO - Wait times for chemotherapy in Ontario haven’t improved even though the province has more than doubled its spending for the cancer treatment, according to a new report released Thursday. While radiation and cancer surgery wait times have gone down, chemotherapy wait times have re...
Thursday , May 08, 2008