Pitfield held that the possession and trafficking sections of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) are unjustifiable infringements of Insite users’ rights under s. 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees “the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in [...]
Results of a new US study released by the Commonwealth Fund, find that more and more young Americans are living without any form of health insurance.
The report, entitled Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help, used census data to calculate the numbers, that show that 13.79 million Americans [...]
The economy and the Iraq War may be the top concerns of voters this election year, but the cost and availability of health care is close behind.
It’s an issue regularly discussed on the campaign trail, and the next president is likely to seek significant changes in the way health care services are delivered and paid [...]
Running counter to a nationwide overall decline in tuberculosis rates, TB cases in Seattle and King County have increased and, in 2007, reached a 30-year-record high of 161 active disease cases — three-quarters of them among people born in other countries. Tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory disease, today infects one of every three people on the [...]
NEW YORK - The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the “tobacco epidemic” is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century unless governments dramatically step up efforts to curb smoking.
In its first comprehensive report on tobacco use in 179 countries, the U.N.s health agency said [...]
