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Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) on Wednesday introduced companion bills (S 1218 and H 2034) that would allow U.S. residents younger than age 65 to enroll in Medicare, [click link for full article]

Ten outstanding geriatric social work faculty members have been chosen as the newest inductees into the Hartford Faculty Scholars Program, a venture funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. Barbara Berkman. The individuals who receive this distinction are provided with opportunities for professional development and $100,000 in funding over the next two years. [click link for full article]

TORONTO (CP) - How bad is the C. difficile problem in Canadian hospitals? Is it getting worse? Better? No one really knows. Sure, there are anecdotal reports of outbreaks in individual hospitals, many of which keep close tabs on their in-house C. difficile rates.

TORONTO (CP) - Contracting a deadly disease from an accidental prick of a needle is a fear that nurses carrying with them each day at work but the province appears unwilling to move on proposed legislation to address the issue, the Ontario Nurses Association said Tuesday.

TORONTO (CP) - Some 70,000 Canadian health-care professionals are accidentally pricked by a needle each year and endure a battery of tests for disease even though safety-engineered needles that dramatically reduce the risk are available, workers' groups said Tuesday.

TORONTO (CP) - A quality-of-life report says the impact of seasonal allergies in Canada is nothing to sneeze at.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas police officers had seen leftover methamphetamine ingredients just like the mess they found in a suspected cook's trash can last month. What gave them pause this time were the packets of strawberry-flavoured children's drink mix next to the bin.

TORONTO (CP) - Influenza has claimed the life of a second Canadian child this flu season, this time a child from Quebec. The death was reported in the latest issue of FluWatch, the national weekly influenza surveillance report compiled by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

TORONTO (CP) - About one in 20 people who show up at an Ontario emergency department with a ruptured brain aneurysm are misdiagnosed, a new study has found.

MONTREAL (CP) - Cancer diagnostic company DiagnoCure (TSX:CUR) has secured the exclusive worldwide rights and an option to use a U.S.