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Nova Scotia Air Quality Index
The Air Quality Health Index or “AQHI” is a tool to help protect your health. Using a scale from 1 to 10 and the words low, moderate, high, and very high, it measures current levels of outdoor air pollution and related health risk. It can help you decide when it is safe to be active [...]
Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls – June 17, 2011
Health Canada reviewing diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos) and potential risk of bladder cancer. For more information, click here
Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls – June 15, 2011
Antipsychotic drugs: Labelling updateregarding the risk of abnormal muscle movements and withdrawal symptomsin newborns exposed during pregnancy. For more information, click here
Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls – June 7, 2011
RITUXAN (rituximab) – Fatal Infusion Related Reactions in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis – Hoffmann-La Roche Limited. For more information, click here
Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls – June 7, 2011
Tanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. Recalls Junior and Children’s Strength Acetaminophen Tablets For more information, click here.
Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls – 2011
An archive of previously issued advisory, warning and recall notices is provided for reference and research purposes on Health Canada’s Website. The products listed in these past notices have been subject to removal from the marketplace or appropriate corrective action. These notices are not an indication of the safety status of products produced at a [...]
Health Canada reviewing safety of drospirenone-containing oral contraceptives (Yasmin and Yaz) and risk of venous thromboembolism
Health Canada is currently reviewing two new studies recently published in the British Medical Journal that suggest the risk of blood clots with drospirenone-containing birth control pills may be two to three times greater than with birth control pills containing another type of progestin (levonorgestrel). For more information, click here.
Respiratory Watch Report
Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Communicable Diseases Respiratory Watch http://www.gov.ns.ca/hpp/cdpc/respiratory-watch.asp
