Last updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 | 10:04 PM ET
- Trade show pitches surgical passages to India
- Exhibitors at a Toronto trade fair are hoping to add surgery to the list of reasons Canadians travel, but a medical ethicist questions the lack of oversight. more »
- Weight gain in pregnancy guides updated
- Health Canada is formally replacing its guidelines on weight gain during pregnancy to match new U.S. recommendations. more »
- Bullying is a public health issue: researcher
- Bullying should be considered a public health problem and governments should adopt national strategies against it, says a Canadian professor who led a study of bullying in 40 countries. more »
- H1N1 intensifying in Canada but subsiding elsewhere: WHO
- H1N1 appears to have peaked in parts of western Europe and the United States but transmission continues to intensity in Canada, the World Health Organization said Friday. more »
- Alberta passes bill to recoup health costs from criminals, big tobacco
- Alberta has passed legislation allowing the province to sue criminals and tobacco companies to recover health-care costs. more »
- Parents desperate for autism strategy
- Long wait times in P.E.I. for the diagnosis of autism, up to two years, are leaving parents in a "state of panic," said a protester at the legislature Thursday. more »
- Fewer Paps OK for women in 20s
- Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new U.S. guidelines that conclude that is enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. more »
- N.B. has let children suffer: youth advocate
- New Brunswick has let many of its young people, particularly those in First Nations communities, suffer in "shocking" conditions, says the province's child and youth advocate. more »
- Canadian health-care spending to top $180B
- Health-care spending in Canada is expected to reach $183.1 billion this year, up more than five per cent from last year, according to a report released on Thursday. more »
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