Cellphones' radiation levels hard to find: probe
The amount of radio frequency energy - a form of radiation emitted by cellphones and absorbed by the body - is nearly impossible to determine when buying a phone, a CBC-TV Marketplace investigation has found. cbc.ca |
Major drug maker faces shortages till 2011
The Canadian arm of drug maker Johnson and Johnson confirmed Friday that certain children's medications will be in short supply or unavailable until next year. cbc.ca |
H1N1 pandemic to be declared over soon: WHO
Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, expects the H1N1 flu pandemic to be officially declared over in the next week or so. cbc.ca |
U.S. doctors working while sick: study
More than half of U.S. doctors in training who responded to a survey said they have shown up sick to work at least once, and almost one-third said they have done it more than once. cbc.ca |
Cholera kills E. coli, salmonella
Cholera bacteria are deadly to other bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness - a finding that provides some clues about how cholera survives between epidemics. cbc.ca |