New research reveals that a widely used class of agricultural pesticides is the likely culprit behind the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. Worse still: Canada continues to market …

Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …

Longstanding federal strategies and polices have exacerbated the rapid spread of Novel A(H1N1) influenza in remote First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts charge. The federal government …

The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.

Alarming new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggests that widespread off-label use of cephalosporin antibiotics in poultry hatcheries is triggering human resistance to the class of antibiotics.