Public Health & Preventive Medicine

A new section of the Veterans Affairs Canada website reinforces the importance of maintaining good oral health in order to optimize overall health in seniors.

Health Canada is advising consumers and healthcare professionals about the rare, but potentially serious risk to infants when women take codeine-containing products while breastfeeding.

Ontario came in first in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy's first annual Canada Health Consumer Index which was released today.

The Canadian Paediatric Society has issued a revised statement on the diagnosis and management of head lice.

Many U.K. pharmacy workers giving bad advice

Gilead Sciences' Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate tablets) is now indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B infection in adults.

CPhA, CMA join forces with Rx&D to promote safe and appropriate medication use among Canadians.

Recent reports of serious illness in infants in East Asia, caused by ingestion of infant formula contaminated by melamine, may be causing public concern.