Health Risks
Written on 30 Jun, 2007 at 9:26 in
Health Risks | Author:
Oswald Clark Economics Reporter
In the March federal budget, the Conservative government earmarked $300 million for the provinces to purchase the controversial new HPV vaccination.
Gardasil is a three-course vaccination produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck Frosst and is aimed at preventing the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer in women The company recommends the vaccine for all girls between the ages of 9 and 26 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2007 at 8:48 in
Bioethics, Health Risks | Author:
Paul Tuns Interim Editor
For the past year, there has been an increased push by some in the healthcare system, the media and political circles to convince Canadians to sign their organ donor cards. For others, such information campaigns are not enough, so Ontario MPP Peter Kormos (NDP) went so far as to draft a private member’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:39 in
Health Risks | Author:
Theresa Smyth
Supervised drug injection facilities, or “safe injection” sites, offer clean venues for the supervised intravenous abuse of illegal substances, reducing the sharing of needles and offering intervention for overdoses. These sites are intended to reduce HIV and hepatitis transmission, but do not necessarily stop addiction.
•Such facilities are advocated by proponents of “harm reduction,” which is defined as a public health philosophy ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:36 in
Health Risks, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter Notwithstanding inconclusive evaluations of its success, Liberal party leader Stephane Dion has praised Vancouver’s supervised drug injection facility and promised that as prime minister, he would support mayors of other cities who want to establish similar projects.
Relying on favourable information from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – including a notable study from November 2006 – Dion made ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 2003 at 13:52 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
By Peter Stock The Interim The first Sunday in October is a busy day in Canada. Most pro-lifers know it as Life Chain Sunday, but it is also the day that the CIBC sponsors Run ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Nov, 2003 at 7:56 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
Interim Staff The first Sunday in October is a busy day in Canada. Most pro-lifers know it as Life Chain Sunday, but it is also the day that the CIBC sponsors Run ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Nov, 2003 at 7:07 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
On Sept. 17, the abortion drug RU-486 claimed its latest victim, a California teen. Well, that is not exactly true. Every day, hundreds of tiny, unborn ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Oct, 2003 at 11:14 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
Interim Staff The Summer 2003 Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study that concluded the link between abortion and breast cancer has been suppressed or ignored by scientists, women's groups and the media because of their collective pro-abortion bias and out of a desire to further their own political purposes.
The study, "The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Sep, 2003 at 13:14 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
By Tony Gosgnach The Interim
A series of information sheets obtained by The Interim and related to a Toronto abortuary offer a revealing glimpse into the workings, tactics and mindset of personnel within the abortion industry. They also indicate an attempt by such personnel to guard themselves against possible future legal actions by revealing some of the negative and dangerous aspects of the abortion procedure.
The documents, which include appointment booking information, emanate from the Choice in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 2003 at 13:28 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
LifeSite News
Researchers Kimberly Elford and Paul Claman at the University of Ottawa have revealed a gruesome circumstance explaining one reason why some otherwise healthy women are left infertile after abortions.
In a case study published in the April issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the researchers note that fetal bone fragments can lodge into the muscular tissue in the uterus, concealing them from hysteroscopes (tube cameras) which are normally used to detect ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2003 at 12:11 in
Abortion, Health Risks, Society & Culture | Author:
Commentary by Gillian Long
The leading British medical journal The Lancet reported last month that the use of oral contraceptives can more than double a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer.
British and French researchers with Cancer Research U.K. found that being on the pill for less than five years was associated with an increased risk of 10 per cent, while subjects who took the drug for five to nine years ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2003 at 9:49 in
Health Risks | Author:
Lifesite News
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has applauded phase two clinical trials for a new painkiller named Tectin, which is derived from the pufferfish, that are being carried out in cancer centres across Canada.
Current clinical trials are being done on late-stage cancer patients who are experiencing uncontrolled pain and who have not undergone chemotherapy during the past month.
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Oct, 2002 at 11:35 in
Health Risks | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
It's being touted by its proponents as yet another "safe, effective, convenient and reliable" option for birth control. But others say that, with regard to dangers, side effects and other complications, it's the same old story.
Health Canada has approved a contraceptive patch called Evra, that will see women slap it on their skins, wear it constantly and allow a steady flow of hormones to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 7:44 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
James Wood
You'd think by now there would be widespread knowledge of the link between abortion and breast cancer. There are at least 28 independent studies, going as far back as 1957, that have linked breast cancer to abortion . Yet, few seem to know about it.
Denise Mountenay, a speaker and author, had three abortions in her younger years. Long after she ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2002 at 7:19 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
Lifesite News
Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville) has been told by Health Canada that the department has no statistics on whether abortions are medically necessary or medically risky.
On April 23, Breitkreuz submitted an Access to Information request asking for "Copies of documents, reports and correspondence in the department with respect to the total death risk by women having an elective abortion compared to women ... (Continue reading)
