Liberal health minister "lying" on claims to protect medicare: NDP (Canadian ...

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's health minister is outright "lying" when he claims to be fighting to protect medicare from privatization, an issue likely to dominate the next federal election campaign, says the NDP health critic.

Toronto students raise awareness (The Steubenville Herald-Star)

TORONTO - City high school students are helping to "S.T.A.M.P." out use of tobacco among pupils at Karaffa Middle School by making them aware of the dangers of tobacco use.

Canadian labs alert WHO to deadly virus

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Dying Of Cancer? Have Some Ecstasy!

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Testing Pesticides on Kids Not Worth Fight, Sez EPA

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Tobacco-funded smokers' group launches Quebec website to fight new laws (Cana...

MONTREAL (CP) - A tobacco-funded smokers' rights group has started operations in Quebec to counter the non-smoking lobby.

Vets From Recent Wars Suffer High Rates of Mental Illness

In a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors with the Veterans Health Administration predicted the future mental health needs of current U.S. Army soldiers and...

Oral Cannabis Induces Psychosis at Low Levels (Reuters)

Reuters - Even in clinical situations where cannabis is administered orally at low doses, psychotic reactions can occur, Swiss researchers report the current issue of BMC Psychiatry.

Food agency expands warning on brand of assorted mushrooms in oil (Canada.com)

OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Les Aliments Valli Foods Inc. are warning people not to eat Valli brand Assorted Mushrooms In Oil described below because it may be contaminated with the bacteria responsible for botulism.

Bird flu could put Britain in quarantine, warns scientist (The Observer)

Offices and schools across Britain could be closed to protect workers if bird flu arrives, the Ministry of Defence's chief scientist has warned.

SE Asia's Bird Flu Death Toll Reaches 48 (AP)

AP - Vietnam and Cambodia on Friday each confirmed an additional death from bird flu, raising Southeast Asia's death toll to 48 from a disease that has become entrenched in the region's poultry and raised fears of a global pandemic.

Deadly bacteria found in Toronto hospital (CBC Ottawa)

TORONTO – A Toronto hospital is battling the same bacteria blamed for the deaths of more than 100 people in Quebec. Doctors at the University Health Network say they've discovered 10 cases of C. difficile at Princess Margaret Hospital, one of three facilities in the network.

New rule on pictures warning cigarette danger takes effect (MCOT)

BANGKOK, Mar 25 (TNA) - Thailand's new rule requiring cigarette producers and importers to feature pictures warning the danger of smoking is effective today.

Montreal superbug hits Toronto hospital

Strain of C. difficile found in patients in Toronto's leading cancer hospital