Biotech cash crunch threatens new medicines: UK expert

Oct 27, 2008
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=c6462c95-4722-452a-8bf8-b05f870223f5

From geeky scientist to business innovator

After his Thatcher-era funding ran out, Phil Blake faced economic reality and switched to the private side of the health-care industry
Oct 27, 2008
GORDON PITTS
Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081027.RATTHETOP27/TPStory/Business

Health worsens after immigration, study shows

Oct 27, 2008
Shabnam Janet Janani
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/525011

Women not receiving equal care as men for heart disease: MD

Oct 27, 2008
Tiffany Crawford
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=44db7821-bc4a-4996-b052-1f3b22ac8c68

Study suggests drinking water may be source of winter norovirus outbreaks

Oct 27, 2008
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081027/health/health_norovirus_drinking_water_1

No harm from easing ER crowding with hallway beds: study

Oct 27, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/27/emerg-hall.html

Ottawa refuses to reveal its position on chrysotile

Oct 26, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081026.wasbestos1027/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081026.wasbestos1027

Typhoid fever on the rise in B.C.

Oct 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/26/bc-thyphoid-fever-warning.html

Burning issue: N.L. struggles to close ancient garbage incinerators

Oct 26, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/26/nfld-incinerators.html

Protect pesticide bans — May

Oct 26, 2008
JOHN GILLIS
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1086897.html

Manitoba spending up to $5 million to look for asbestos, PCBs in public housing

Oct 26, 2008
Chinta Puxley
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081026/national/hazardous_public_housing_1

New, promising antibiotics in fight against MRSA superbug

Oct 26, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081027/health/us_health_infection_mrsa_1

2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists

Oct 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081025/greenhouse_gases_081025/20081025

Vaccine cuts hospital admissions for kids with diarrhea

Oct 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/25/diarrhea-rotavirus.html