Canadian Standards Association releases report on blood handling, safety
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TORONTO (CP) - New Canada-wide standards for handling blood were released Wednesday, even though officials insisted there's nothing wrong with the current system.
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Tainted-blood victims with hepatitis C are outraged at a new Ontario government program to prevent and treat their deadly illness, saying it falls millions short of the money they were promised years ago.
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Canada has exceeded its target for mad cow testing this year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. All tests have come back negative for the brain-wasting disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the agency says.
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The World Health Organization issued new  guidelines on Tuesday on preventing contamination of drinking  water supplies and resultant illnesses.
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Receiving a blood transfusion is associated with a greater risk of death for patients with acute coronary syndromes, such as a myocardial infarction (heart attack), according to a study in the October 6 issue of JAMA.
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross a record $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to reject donors who had traveled to malarial areas and allowing blood and related products to be distributed without proper testing, said Margaret Glavin, the Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.
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TORONTO (CP) - The alarming increase of HIV and hepatitis C in Canadian prisons must be combatted through government-led needle exchange programs, medical and legal groups said Wednesday.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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A survey conducted by York University researchers shows that conditions in Ontarioâs nursing homes will only improve with the introduction of enforceable standards for care.
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NEW YORK  - A significant proportion of blood transfusions given to mothers around the time of birth may be unnecessary, Canadian researchers report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.
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An updated analysis of data from studies of anemia drugs used with cancer treatments showed that they increase risk of death and blood clots, an industry newsletter reported on Friday.
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TORONTO (CP) - A new report says the health of the Great Lakes is mixed, and while the ecosystem is improving in some ways, there are many areas of troubling concern.  The report by Environment Canada and the U.S.
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TORONTO (CP) - The province's private security guards will soon be subject to stringent new standards as part of the Ontario government's efforts to keep them on their side of the thin blue line.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.
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KINGSTON, ONT. - The Ontario Medical Association has added its name to a list of organizations concerned about increasing rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections among prison inmates.