Canada is the first country to lower its melamine standards in order to match those set recently by the World Health Organization, Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Wednesday.
The federal government will spend another $31 million over the next five years more to monitor the safety of drugs already on the market, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Wednesday.
The federal government will spend $6 million on clinical research projects to speed up the development of alternatives to medical isotopes, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Tuesday.
Canada's Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq on Friday proposed banning six commonly-used chemicals in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles, as well as new strict limits for lead in products.
Canada will have enough H1N1 vaccine in place by late October to deal with any swine flu outbreak, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Friday.
Canadian infants under one year of age who are sick with flu may receive the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Thursday under new swine flu pandemic guidelines.
The federal government has awarded a $926,000 contract to help small and medium-sized businesses respond to the swine flu pandemic, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Wednesday.
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and a First Nations chief had widely divergent views Friday on the state of flu pandemic preparedness plans for aboriginal communities.
Canada's swine flu vaccine production is not slower than in other countries, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Wednesday.
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Thursday the federal government is willing to consider helping the provinces pay for swine-flu related expenses, but didn't commit to a specific figure.
... communities has found Health Canada made a "clear overestimation" of the need in some cases, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Wednesday ...
Additional funding of $2.4 million over two years will support five new research projects on the H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced on Wednesday.
Canada has officially entered the second wave of the H1N1 flu pandemic, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Friday.
Liberal senators have put the interests of industry ahead of health and safety with changes to a proposed product-recall bill, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Thursday.
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is not reconsidering the appointment of Bernard Prigent, a senior pharmaceutical executive at Pfizer ...
