Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide - Newsletter
This newsletter covers health, safety and related legal issues affecting all workplaces in Canada, including offices, offsite locations and mobile workstations. It monitors recent trends and discoveries in the health field and explains
Which Comes First - The Agency Or The Egg?
Health Canada is currently drafting regulations to flesh out the rest of the Act without the guidance of the Agency. It’s crucial that members of the Agency are appointed so that it can finally begin to deliver research and leadership
300000 more healthcare cards in Ontario than there are people
Auditor Jim McCarter says most of the extra health cards are held by people in Toronto, or those living close to the United States border. [Hyphenated Canadian - About forty percent of the 250000+ legal immigrants who arrive in Canada
More Medicare Idiocy
"We're very clear in British Columbia that the Canada Health Act will be enforced and I can tell you that if someone is breaking the Canada Health Act they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Campbell said.
Heart And Stroke Foundation: Stents Safe With Drug Therapy
According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, recent reports of drug-coated stents causing blood clots is not a problem in Canada as most Canadians follow up with preventive drug therapy. Dr. Beth Abramson of the Heart and Stroke
Study: Sanofi’s Acomplia helps in type 2 diabetes
Toronto (eCanadaNow) - Sanofi-aventis announced today that new data on rimonabant, its first-in-class cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor blocker, showed that patients with type 2 diabetes not currently treated with anti-diabetic
Swamp Sunrise
9:30 am HEALTH CARE — Leading US-based corporations announce an initiative to help employees better manage their health care, improve communications Ghana, Canada, Romania and Thailand) for their commitment to creating awareness of
Global Public Health
Social patterning of health, including social exclusion, health disparities and inequalities [Associate Editor: Christina Zarowsky - International Development Research Centre, Canada] * Environmental health sciences, including natural
Stephen Harper and Hillary Clinton
Stephen Harper: The following sentence appears in the CPC platform: "We are committed to a universal, publicly funded health care system that respects the five principles of the Canada Health Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and
robyn young at the chronicle / herald in nova scotia: aboriginal
•Youth made up more than 30 per cent of positive HIV tests among aboriginal people from 1998 to 2003. Source: The Public Health Agency of Canada — Understanding the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Health Care Spending In Canada To Reach $148 Billion This Year - Infants And Seniors Account For Highest Spending Per Medical News Today
Health care spending in Canada is expected to reach $148 billion in 2006, an increase of $8 billion over last year, according to figures released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in its annual report on health care spending. National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975-2006 projects that total health care spending in Canada will increase by 5. [click link for full article]
Canada spends $4,548 per person every year on health : CIHI report EARTHtimes.org
Latest statistics estimate that Canada's government will shell out an average of $4,548 per person for health related expenditures this year – an increase by almost 5% from 2005. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has come up with its most recent report which analyzes the country's health expenditure in terms of on whom is most spent, in what areas, what diseases, the regions,
Cannasat Therapeutics Announces Successful pre-CTA Meeting with Health Canada Regarding CAT 310 CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. is pleased to announce a successful pre-CTA meeting with Health Canada for Phase 1 testing of its lead product, CAT 310, a cannabinoid based pharmaceutical product.
Stats Canada warns of fraud Hitting health professionals Lakeshore Advance
Another scam has hit the streets and this time it is geared to health professionals. Statistics Canada has released a warning about a letter which invites individuals to participate in a non-existent survey. This scam has reached the Grand Bend area.
WEX Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Pre-CTA Meeting With Health Canada CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - WEX Pharmaceuticals Inc. is pleased to report that following the resumption of the clinical development of Tectin, the Company had a pre-CTA meeting with Health Canada last Thursday.
Canada's spending on health care to reach $148 billion this year CP via Yahoo! Canada News
OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says Canadians will spend $148 billion on health care this year, more than $4,500 per person.
Canadian health spending set to reach $148B in 2006 Vancouver Province
OTTAWA - Canada is still among the top spenders in the world on health care, according to this year’s annual report on health expenditures by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), released Tuesday.
Health-care spending to rise by 5.8%: report Ottawa Business Journal
Health-care spending in Canada is expected to rise by 3.7 per cent to $120 billion from last year's numbers by year-end, according to a new survey by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Major U.S. Employers Join to Provide Lifelong Personal Health Records for Employees RedNova
As the cost of providing health care continues to rise, Applied Materials, BP America, Inc., Intel Corporation, Pitney Bowes, Inc. and Wal-Mart are funding an independent nonprofit institute to develop "Dossia," a Web-based framework through which U.S.
BASF and Monsanto Canada announce agreement to develop and commercialize CLEARFIELD canola hybrids SeedQuest
BASF and Monsanto Canada announced today the signing of a licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of CLEARFIELD canola hybrids. The 10-year agreement will see the development and marketing of CLEARFIELD hybrids under Monsanto’s DEKALB(R) brand of canola seed.canada+health: canada health travel , canada health act , canada health travel , canada health act , canada+health