Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

WASHINGTON, D.C. | The U.S. Prostate Cancer Roundtable has expressed concern about the utterly confusing guidance being offered – to both the professional healthcare community and to individual consumers – about whether men should or should not be tested ("screened") for risk of prostate cancer.

Dissatisfaction highest amongst those with a PharmD, community pharmacists.

TORONTO | Mount Sinai Hospital has just launched the largest Canadian study of its kind to track the health of women and their babies. Thousands of women will be participating in the Ontario Birth Study to help scientists and health practitioners understand how genes and the environment interact to shape who we are and how healthy – or unhealthy – we can become.

A recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll found that bus drivers and nurses were more likely to be obese when compared to other professions. The sample consisted of 138,438 people ages 18 and over. It found that 36.4 percent of transport workers were obese.

Throughout Europe, the nursing profession is rapidly losing its appeal. An aging workforce and dwindling student enrollment in nursing schools are precipitating a looming nursing crisis.

New information about the latest cuts of Registered Nurses (RNs) at The Scarborough Hospital, coming less than a week after National Nursing Week celebrations concluded, is further evidence that the Ontario government is cutting health care.

Electronic cigarettes are controversial. But they're catching on with consumers