Category: Health

Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health says that as misinformation has fuelled doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, the benefits of vaccination are being forgotten.Dr. Robert Strang's comments come...

A woman from northern Manitoba with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn't infectious...

After battling advanced prostate cancer for a decade, Jim Larson said his doctor recommended he try a new treatment.Pluvicto is the brand name for a treatment that kills cancer cells...

Timing was everything for Bruce Pieroway when he suffered a heart attack in late October in the rural farming community of Chesley, Ont., about two hours north of Kitchener.It happened...

Being exposed to wildfire smoke over a long period of time could increase the risk of developing dementia even more than exposure to other sources of air pollution, according to...

Credit: public domain Vanderbilt University Medical Center-led research reveals subtle changes in the visual pathways of individuals with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), even when standard eye examinations show...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As the weather warms up, offices are cranking up the air conditioning. But with such varying temperature preferences, where should you set the thermostat? It may...

Fewer people are being diagnosed with and dying of HIV/AIDS around the world. But progress is uneven, and only a few countries are on track to meet global targets set...

President-elect Donald Trump this week cited drugs as a reason for his threat of crushing U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports."This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs,...

There is no grocery store, post office or doctor's office in remote Fitzgerald, Alta.The northern community is more than 700 kilometres northeast of Edmonton on the Slave River, near Wood...