| Whitehorse hospital seeing more intoxicated patients The 2008 death of a Yukon man in RCMP custody has led the force to send more intoxicated patients to the emergency room of Whitehorse General Hospital. cbc.ca |
Drug spending in U.S., Canada about same: report A new report suggests that despite federal government controls on the price of prescription drugs, the burden of paying for medications in Canada differs little from the United States. cbc.ca |
Diabetics barred from starting Avandia trial U.S. federal health officials are barring new patients from enrolling in a safety study of GlaxoSmithKline's controversial Type 2 diabetes pill Avandia. cbc.ca |
Poor Dental Health In Deprived Children Needs To Be Tackled From Birth Oral health strategies to combat very high levels of tooth decay in children from deprived areas need to start from birth. That's the conclusion of a large-scale study of the dental health of three-year olds published in the latest edition of the British Dental Journal... mnt.to |
Red tide toxin hits B.C. shellfish Oysters and mussels harvested from an area of B.C.'s west coast, north of Vancouver contain a toxin and should not be consumed, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. cbc.ca |