Science news articles about 'chief medical officer of health'

... underway to move Nunavut towards an electronic health information system, upgrading the mostly paper-based system that the territory's chief medical officer of health says is not working well enough.

... that contributed to the deaths of 10 people in northwestern Ontario doesn't pose a widespread threat, the province's chief medical officer of health says.

A top public health official in the Northwest Territories has been lured away to become Alberta's chief medical officer of health.

Public health officials and journalists have overstated the importance of the swine flu, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health says.

The response to food-borne disease outbreaks such as listeriosis needs to be strengthened and better co-ordinated, Ontario's chief medical officer of health said Friday.

Alberta has six new cases of swine flu, including the first case that required hospitalization, Alberta's chief medical officer of health announced Monday.

Ontario has had three more deaths associated with swine flu since Monday, raising the province's total to seven, the province's chief medical officer of health said Wednesday.

Toronto's chief medical officer of health is defending chemical use at garbage dump sites set up during the civic workers strike following residents' complaints that the pest- ...

An H1N1 vaccine tailored for pregnant women won't arrive in Ontario until after the shot for the general population is made available, says Ontario's chief medical officer of health.

Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer of health says most of the people who have been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in the province this fall haven't tested positive for the pandemic ...

New Brunswick's deputy chief medical officer of health is apologizing for what he describes as the bedlam that surrounded the H1N1 vaccine rollout in October.