WHO COVID-19 Update July 23, 2020 (Video)
COVID-19 briefing from the World Health Organization (Click bottom right corner of video for sound) [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘world health organization’
The evolution of the Ebola epidemic (Video : CBC National)
FROM: CBC National Health reporter Kelly Crowe looks at how the Ebola outbreak started and where it might be going. [Read more]
Who will get Canada’s Ebola vaccine?
From CBC National Canada will donate doses of its experimental Ebola vaccine to the international community and the World Health Organization will help determine who receives it. [Read more]
Ontario Taking Action to Help Protect Youth from Cancer
New Ontario Government Introducing Ban on Tanning Beds for Youth Under 18 MARCH 7, 2013 – The new Ontario government is taking action to help prevent skin cancer among young people by proposing legislation to ban those under 18 from using tanning beds. The legislation, to be introduced later [Read more]
NOSM Holds Francophone Symposium at Rendez-Vous 2012
Community Stakeholders and Conference Delegates from Around the World Consider Francophone Health THUNDER BAY, ON – Wednesday, October 10, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) welcomed community stakeholders and Rendez-Vous 2012 conference delegates with an interest in Francophone [Read more]
Hughes on Headlines – Cell Phone Dangers
Health Canada warnings on cell phones need to be clearer and widely heard In the summer of 2010 I wrote about a group of parents in Collingwood who were fighting to have wifi taken out of their children’s school. I heard their story while sitting as a member of a parliamentary committee [Read more]
Lakehead Pursues Mental Health Initiative with Funding from the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund
THUNDER BAY, ON – Today in the Lakehead University Agora, the Department of Psychology announced that Bell’s Let’s Talk Community Fund has provided funding for a study to assess the feasibility of a psychology clinic located at Lakehead’s Thunder Bay campus. According to the World [Read more]
Asbestos Shows Canada’s Unfortunate Double Standard says Hughes
Canada missed an opportunity to add chrysotile asbestos to the U.N.’s list of hazardous substances in mid-June adding to our already degraded international reputation which now includes multiple fossil of the year awards and our foot dragging on signing the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous [Read more]
Celebrating World No Tobacco Day
May 31, 2010 9:30 AM McGuinty Government Targets Youth To Create Smoke-Free Ontario As part of World No Tobacco Day, Ontario is creating new tobacco control programs to target the 650,000 young people most at risk of starting smoking. Tobacco kills more than 13,000 people in Ontario every year, is [Read more]
