Health officials in the U.S. on Friday began publishing a quarterly list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential side-effects, with the aim of keeping doctors and patients better informed.
Business owners and politicians in an eastern Ontario town are complaining they were given little or no notice that a drug addiction treatment clinic was moving in downtown.
The Quebec Health Insurance Board has been thwarted in its attempt to force a U.S. medical company to turn over its list of cardiac patients from the province.
Prostate cancer may be more aggressive in obese men because their screening test results tend to be less accurate, say doctors who compared prognosis rates.
A federal government website that highlights the negative health and environmental effects of idling your engine has made changes to its message after meeting with a group representing drive-thru restaurants.
Medical researchers aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen are in remote western Arctic communities this month to continue their work on the first comprehensive survey of Inuit health in Canada.
When a child is convulsing and has a fever, it may alarm parents, but they should be reassured that the risk of death is very rare, say Danish doctors who analyzed death rates for more than 1.6 million children with the condition and without it.
Adding fluoride to drinking water is an important step to promoting public health, Canadian dentists said Thursday. Call follows release of report from an expert panel that recommended Health Canada lower fluoride levels.
