Public Health

An Ontario Superior Court’s ruling that the provincial government's $50-billion lawsuit against tobacco firms can proceed “is great news and a significant defeat for the tobacco industry," says Rob Cunningham, lawyer and senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Canadians are dismissing symptoms of dementia as "just old age" and creating a huge treatment gap that prevents people from getting valuable information about medications, support and better disease management.

Consumer-focused environmental program has been up and running since 2007.

The national medications return program spearheaded by the Post Consumer Pharmaceutical Stewardship Association is ramping up in Manitoba, after a soft launch in January 2011 to educate pharmacists about the program.

The Coalition against Morbid Obesity has launched a social media campaign to combat morbid obesity. The campaign includes two video testimonies that viewers are invited to watch and share, in which two people affected by morbid obesity recount their stories.

A new social marketing campaign launched by Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care aims to let people know just how different HIV is from what it was 20 years ago.