Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the United States, Britain and Canada
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Health Canada is informing health care professionals and Canadians of recent changes to heparin manufacturing standards in the United States that will result in a decrease in the potency of certain heparin products by about 10 per cent.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Health Canada is informing health care professionals and Canadians that routine quality control testing has discovered foreign particles in a small number of vials of five products filled at a Genzyme Corporation facility in Boston. Genzyme has also received customer reports of foreign particles in some vials of these products. The particles observed include non-latex...
Derek Wilken (Free subscription) | yesterday
A report from Health Canada concludes teenage girls actively seek out situations where they suffer angst. This report is being studied by officials with the Toronto Maple Leafs who plan to unveil a 3rd pink jersey. Montreal has been hit with a series of bombings with Police saying it could be mob related or fans are preparing for a Grey Cup victory. Top 5 signs your Grey Cup party is a bust # 5 Half...
Healthy Child Healthy World Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Top Tips • We all know it’s important to feed our families healthful food (which often involves cooking at home), but how important is what you cook that food in? Non-stick cookware is easy to use, but at a cost of emitting toxic fumes into the air. Here are some helpful tips on how to choose the right cookware from Mom Goes Green . • Looking for a way to get involved in your community?...
eFoodAlert.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals and allergy alerts. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert. United States Allergy Alert: Vita Food Products, Inc. (Chicago, IL) recalls its Elf Branded Herring in Sour Cream product distributed in retail stores in California,...
Canadian Online Health News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
TORONTO - Health Canada is informing Canadians who use the blood thinner heparin as well as health-care professionals that certain heparin products will soon undergo a reduction in potency.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Health Canada is warning people not to use Herblex Once More, an unauthorized product promoted to enhance male sexual performance, because it may pose serious health risks.
Z Recommends (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Here are the highlights from the CPSC/Health Canada recall notice for 2.1 million Stork Craft drop side cribs , in case you missed it. After that, our thoughts on this mess. TMore than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo, have been recalled. The recall involves approximately 1,213,000 units distributed in the United...
CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
From CBC News: People in B.C. suffering from a degenerative eye condition are in a quandary over a provincial policy that allows doctors to profit by using a medication that's much cheaper than the approved drug. In June, B.C. started to pay for treatments with Lucentis, a drug that can halt macular degeneration, a retinal condition affecting hundreds of thousands of Canadians over 45 years of age....
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
# 4075 Helen Branswell , medical and science correspondent for the Canadian Press, tracks down what is known about the suspect batch of GSK vaccine which has been pulled from use in Canada due to excess allergic reactions, and answers some questions about anaphylaxis. For my American readers, THIS RECALL DOES NOT APPLY TO U.S. VACCINES. While answers about this batch of vaccine are still in short supply,...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Today, in close collaboration with the Government of Canada and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Stork Craft has voluntarily recalled all of their drop-side cribs, as they pose both a potential entrapment risk, which could lead to suffocation, and a potential fall risk. In Canada, approximately 968,000 affected cribs were sold-making this the...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
GlaxoSmithKline pulls a potentially risky batch of swine flu vaccine in Canada. GlaxoSmithKline - Health - Canada - Vaccination - Infectious disease
Growing Your Baby - Parenthood from Pregnancy to... (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In order to conform with the latest recommendations from the U.S. Institute of Medicine, Health Canada is revising its weight gain guidelines for pregnant women.
Money & Company (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
More than 2 million drop-side baby cribs built by Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. are being recalled in the U.S. and Canada after the deaths of four infants. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Canadian government agency Health Canada...
lilSugar (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
A couple of years ago, it seemed like toy recalls were being announced daily for choking or lead poisoning hazards. This holiday season, parents are being hit with major baby gear recalls. First Maclaren issued a voluntary notification that their hinges could hurt small fingers if a child's hands were holding onto the sides of the stroller during the opening or closing of the buggy. Today, the CPSC...
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