Double-gloving, better face protection added in new guidance on Ebola gear

The UN health agency is updating its guidelines for health workers dealing with the deadly Ebola virus, recommendingtougher measures such as doubling up on gloves and making sure the mouth, nose and eyes are better protected from contaminated droplets...

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Microbicides an 'empowering tool' to prevent HIV infection in women

Microbicides, products specifically aimed at protecting women from HIV without the need to negotiate condom use, are missing in the scientific response to the AIDS pandemic, say researchers working to bridge the gap. In North America and Europe,...

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2 rounds of chemo fail to shrink Rob Ford's tumour

Two rounds of chemotherapy have failed to shrink the tumour in Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's abdomen, CBC News has confirmed. Last month the Toronto mayor was diagnosed with a rare but aggressive type of malignant tumour. His tumour has not shrunk, it has...

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Maine gets court order to isolate Ebola nurse who defied quarantine

Maine health officials obtained a 24-hour court order restricting Kaci Hickox's movement after the nurse repeatedly defied the state's quarantine for medical workers who have treated Ebola patients. A judge granted the order Thursday limiting Hickox's...

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Final arguments in dispute over chemotherapy for First Nations girl

McMaster Children's Hospital is challenging a First Nations mother's decision to withdraw her daughter from chemotherapy. (McMaster) An Ontario court on Wednesday heard final arguments in the precedent-setting case of whether a child can...

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Nurse Kaci Hickox defies Ebola quarantine again in Maine

A nurse who vowed to defy Maine's voluntary quarantine for health-care workers who treated Ebola patients followed through on her promise Thursday, leaving her home for a bike ride. Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend stepped out of their Fort Kent, Me.,...

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Refugee health cuts: Tories prep contingency plan as deadline looms

Immigration officials are working furiously to finalize contingency plans for refugee health care coverage in the event the government loses a court battle this week on how much coverage refugee claimants ought to receive. The long-running fight over...

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Wheelchair-bound students get level playing field in Grand-Digue, N.B.

Physical education teacher Rhéal Hébert of Grande-Digue, N.B., has gone an extra step to see that all students get moving in his classes. When Hebert had two students with muscular dystrophy in his École Grande-Digue class — Renelle Belliveau and her...

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Texas nurse leaves Emory University Hospital free of Ebola virus

A nurse who fuelled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient in Dallas was released Tuesday from a hospital isolation unit, where doctors defended her as a courageous and passionate front-line caregiver. Another nurse,...

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South Africa aiming to be 'leading player' in HIV research

South African doctors and researchers seem to be gaining confidence in their decades-long battle against HIV, international delegates at a conference in Cape Town say.   The HIV Research for Prevention Conference is dedicated to biomedical HIV...

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WHO says 82 being monitored for Ebola in Mali

Health workers are monitoring 82 people who had contact with a toddler who died of Ebola in Mali last week, but no new cases of the disease have yet been reported, World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Tuesday. Three WHO officials...

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Ebola death count likely exceeds 5,000, as rate of new cases in Liberia slows, WHO says

The Ebola death toll is likely over 5,000 out of 13,703 cases worldwide, the World Health Organization says. Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO assistant director-general in charge of the operational response, gave the update to reporters on Wednesday. In Liberia,...

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No coverage for Saskatoon woman's $30K dental procedure so she can chew

Judy Perrin-Royer's dental surgeon described her as an oral cripple in need of dental implants, but the provincial government won't pay for the $30,000 procedure. The 59-year-old Saskatoon woman cried when she heard herself described as an "oral...

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Nun awake while heart valve replaced, procedure livestreamed

Less than an hour after having heart surgery on Monday, Sister Theresa Stickley was alert and in high spirits, and was looking forward to going home the next day. "I'm feeling pretty good. I had a little pressure in the chest, that's all," the 83-year-old...

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PSA test should be abandoned as screen for prostate cancer, task force says

The blood test mostly commonly used to screen men for prostate cancer should be dropped, because it can result in  more harm than good, says a Canadian task force. The prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test measures inflammation that can be elevated...

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Amber Vinson, 2nd Texas nurse to contract Ebola, to be released today

A nurse being treated for Ebola will leave hospital Tuesday after tests showed she's virus-free, while another nurse quarantined against her will after treating patients in West Africa has returned to her home state. Atlanta's Emory University Hospital...

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Enterovirus D68 confirmed in Fredericton child

New Brunswick has its first confirmed case of Enterovirus D68, which is the strain that has hospitalized children across North America and been linked to at least three deaths. A Fredericton child, who tested positive for Enterovirus D68,...

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U.S. Ebola quarantines sign of growing rift between politicians, health workers

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday night revised guidelines for the mandatory, 21-day quarantining of medical workers returning from West Africa that he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered two days earlier, bringing the state closer in line...

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'No shortage of volunteers' for clinical trial of Canadian-made Ebola vaccine

The risk of contracting Ebola virus in suburban Washington, D.C., is vanishingly low. In fact, with the recovery and Friday's release from hospital there of Dallas nurse Nina Pham, it is actually nil. But that fact isn't deterring people from stepping...

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Nova Scotia doctor to charge employers for sick notes

Nova Scotia physician Ethel Cooper-Rosen is going to start charging employers $30 for sick notes, saying they put unnecessary pressure on the health-care system and expose other patients in her waiting room to viruses. Many employers...

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2nd Dallas nurse to contract Ebola cleared of virus, hospital says

A second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola is now free of the virus, Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said on Friday. Amber Vinson, one of two nurses from a Dallas hospital infected with Ebola after treating the first patient diagnosed with the...

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Ebola outbreak: 2 U.S. states order mandatory quarantine for returning health workers

New York and New Jersey will automatically quarantine medical workers returning from Ebola-hit West African countries and the U.S. government is considering the same step after a doctor who treated patients in Guinea came back infected, officials said...

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Ebola patient who died in Mali had contact with at least 300 others

Officials in Mali are working to identify everyone who came into contact with a two-year-old girl who has died from Ebola. She had travelled with her grandmother for hundreds of kilometres by bus through Mali from Guinea. The bus travelled through Mali's...

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'No shortage of volunteers' for clinical trial of Canadian-made Ebola vaccine

The risk of contracting Ebola virus in suburban Washington, D.C., is vanishingly low. In fact, with the recovery and Friday's release from hospital there of Dallas nurse Nina Pham, it is actually nil. But that fact isn't deterring people from stepping...

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