The 5-year survival rate for black people with melanoma is 59% compared to 85% for white people. “While people of color are less likely to become afflicted with skin cancer, they are much more likely... Read More

Active Healthy Kids Canada’s 2009 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth showed that children’s physical activity levels received an F grade for the third year in a row. The... Read More

The School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia is offering a new master of public health (MPH) degree. The MPH is a 2-year non-thesis degree. It consists of 21 core... Read More

The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre recently opened access to the full content of the Cochrane Library, an online resource that provides evaluations on health treatments. The Canadian... Read More

Mr Ross A. Davidson and Mr Nathan A. Hoag are sharing the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (2008) for their coauthored paper “Prostate cancer screening practices and... Read More