OTTAWA – Health Canada is reminding Canadians that plasma pens are not authorized for sale in Canada and that these devices may pose health risks. Health Canada is also underlining that consumers should be wary of spas promoting plasma pen services.
With mental health beds in short supply, emergency rooms increasingly have become the care of first and last resort for people in the grips of a psychiatric episode. Now, hospitals around the country are opening emergency units that calmly cater to patients with mental health needs.
Affected products Product DIN Product Code Lot Expiry Extraneal 2L/2L Twinbag 02240806 JB9912 W9B28T0 02/29/2020 Extraneal 7.5% 2.5L SYSII 02240806 JB9923LP W9C05T1 03/31/2020
Once a tiny specialty that drew mostly psychiatrists, addiction medicine is expanding its accredited training to include primary care residents and “social justice warriors” who see it as a calling.
March 15, 2019For immediate release OTTAWA – Health Canada is conducting a safety review after issues were discovered during a clinical trial involving rheumatoid arthritis patients being treated with the drug tofacitinib (sold in Canada under the brand names Xeljanz and Xeljanz XR). Tofacitinib is a prescription drug used to treat adults with moderate […]
Parents of students with legitimate learning disabilities worry that a backlash against providing special accommodations in college admissions testing could make it harder for them to succeed.
OTTAWA – Health Canada is advising Canadians that Pro Doc Limitée is voluntarily recalling two lots of irbesartan tablets because of a nitrosamine impurity, N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA). The lots were distributed in Quebec only.
New research shows that older adults want close relationships with the people they care about and meaningful social roles.
Details of the reductions have not yet been announced, but in 2017 Congress ordered mandated changes to make the military health system more efficient.
Affected products The following products containing Losartan manufactured by Hetero Labs Ltd. Unit 1 are being recalled. Health Canada maintains a complete list of sartan drugs that have been recalled because of nitrosamine impurities on its website.