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Medical aid group warns that donors will cut back on AIDS funding worldwide
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa.
Obama says it's time for House to 'answer call of history' and pass health overhaul bill
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday and later told them: "Now is the time to finish the job."
B.C. politicians to sit through weekend to pass strike legislation
The union representing long-striking B.C. paramedics is hurling some of its anger at provincial moves to legislate them back to work at Olympic organizers.
U.S. FDA warns websites not to sell banned flavoured cigarettes online
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavoured cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.
Employers anxious about hiring people with disabilities, but see their value
While most employers see people living with disabilities as valuable assets to the workplace, anxieties over job accommodation or firing workers discourage some from hiring them, a new study suggests.
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Liberal wants Silver Alerts to help find missing Alzheimer's patients
So many families are dealing with a relative suffering from Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia that a Liberal backbencher wants Ontario to adopt a system of "Silver Alerts" similar to the "Amber Alerts" used when children go missing.
Ont. extends presumptive legislation to volunteer and part-time firefighters
Volunteer and part-time firefighters in Ontario will now have the same benefits as their full-time colleagues when it comes to receiving support and treatment for certain cancers and conditions developed on the job.
Worse outcomes for newer 'off-pump' heart bypass, better with heart-lung machine
It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way.
Health Canada warns of health risks posed by eating raw bean sprouts
Cook those bean sprouts well, advises Health Canada, if you want to reduce the risk of exposure to food borne illness.
Flu dogma being rewritten by a strange virus no one pegged to trigger a pandemic
The World Health Organization's top flu scientist often describes the virus he's studied for years as "humbling."
Bureaucrats lukewarm on NDP government promise to keep N.S. ERs open
Some senior bureaucrats in Nova Scotia's Health Department distanced themselves Wednesday from a key NDP campaign promise to keep the province's emergency rooms open seven days a week.
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Hoping to stem rise in suicide jumpers, Tokyo train stations install soothing blue lights
Alarmed by a rise in people jumping to their deaths in front of trains, some Japanese railway operators are installing special blue lights above station platforms they hope will have a soothing effect and reduce suicides.
Keeping cholesterol low may help men avoid aggressive prostate cancers, study suggests
Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.
Feds powerless to recall toxic trinkets: audit
Tests are turning up dangerous levels of lead in children's jewelry, but the federal government can't compel companies to recall the toxic trinkets, says a new report by Canada's environmental watchdog.
McGuinty says he won't cancel Pan Am trip to Mexico amid flu worries
Premier Dalton McGuinty is refusing to bow to opposition pressure to cancel his trip to Mexico in support of the 2015 Pan Am Games Wednesday and instead stay in Ontario to oversee the continued rollout of the H1N1 vaccine.
GSK says it has resumed making the H1N1 adjuvanted vaccine at its Que. plant
The company making Canada's H1N1 vaccine says it's finished producing a special version of the shot for pregnant women and is again focusing its efforts on the vaccine intended for the majority of Canadians.
Premature births most to blame for high US infant mortality rate, government says
Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday.
WHO: Syphilis boom in China; health official blames country's rapidly growing economy
A senior Chinese public health official says the tenfold growth in the number of syphilis cases over the past decade in China has been driven by the country's rapid economic growth.
B.C. brings in legislation to end seven-month strike by ambulance paramedics
British Columbia is moving to impose a new contract on ambulance paramedics who have been on strike since April.
US hospital fined $150,000 in 5th wrong-site surgery since 2007, video cameras to be installed
Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the extraordinary step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, state health officials said Monday.
Canada begins rollout of unadjuvanted vaccine for pregnant women
The Public Health Agency of Canada is rolling out its first doses of unadjuvanted H1N1 flu vaccine this week, a move that should offer relief to pregnant women unwilling to bare their arms for the adjuvanted shot.
Manitoba opposition says swine flu vaccine program has led to chaos
With supplies of swine flu vaccine dwindling in many areas of Manitoba, the opposition is accusing the NDP government of creating chaos and public confusion.
A look at the latest H1N1 developments in Canada and around the world
Developments Monday in the ongoing H1N1 pandemic in Canada and around the world:
Saskatchewan says enough swine flu shots for pregnant women, young kids
Health officials in Saskatchewan say they have enough swine flu vaccine for pregnant women and children under the age of five, but other high risk groups will have to wait for now.
The sound and the fury: Tinnitus drives some sufferers to distraction
For the last two years, Nancy Bierlmeier has been living with a constant companion she wishes would go away and leave her in peace.
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