Recent survey by Canadian Institute for Health Information revealed that amount spent on medication is touching skies. Data revealed that amount spent on drugs has reached $29.8 billion, or $897 per person in 2008. Survey report also showed that drug spending last year accounted for 17.4 per cent of total health spending as compared to 9.5 percent since 1985.

Recent survey by the Canadian Cancer Society revealed that number of cancer cases diagnosed is increasing however the survival rates are also climbing.

Data revealed that nearly 900 Prince Edward Islanders will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and 360 will die from cancer. Statistics reveal that 40 per cent of Canadian women and 45 per cent of men will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Researchers said that better screening and better drug are resulting in increasing survival rates of cancer.

Recent study revealed that the number of U.S. women ages 16-25 screened for chlamydia has increased from 25 percent to 43 percent during 2000-2006. Research team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there are still far too few women being screened. 

Researchers wrote in the report that Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, with more than 2.8 million new cases estimated to occur each year. 

A recent survey revealed that the number of people desirous of donating organs is far more than the number of registered donors. Most Americans harbor various misconceptions relating donation of organs which prevent them from becoming active donors.

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Around 25,000 children in the United States are born to mothers with epilepsy each year. Recent study found that children of women with epilepsy who took the drug valproate (Depakote) during pregnancy had lower I Q at the age of three as compared to other children.