Antibiotics have saved billions of lives, yet we’re increasingly immune to their benefits, in part because of their widespread, unregulated use in the chickens we eat. Consumers, growers, government — …
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News that an international team of investigators has found the flu drug Tamiflu of little medical use — despite billions spent stockpiling it in B.C. and around the world — comes as bittersweet vindication …
A new review of Health Canada’s safety standards for radiofrequency devices, including Wi-Fi and cellphones, is deeply flawed due to the authors’ conflicts of interest and lack of expertise, say …
In a sign that international concern about infectious diseases is attracting attention in military circles, the United States government has launched the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multinational effort …
New restrictions on the use of antibiotics on farm animals in both the United States and Canada may help mitigate risks to human health due to antibiotic resistance. However serious …
Ontario data specialists are dusting off reams of disparate and disconnected health data, integrating it with new sources of “big data” from genomics, and harnessing it all to help shape …
Linus Sandegren’s hunt for new antibiotic drugs started with a shock. As a drug researcher in Uppsala, a small city in southern den, Sandegren witnessed Europe’s first outbreak of spectrum …
US President Barack Obama is frustrated with the work of contractors, including Canada’s largest technology company, and the sustained problems with the website at the centre of his hard-fought Affordable …