Category: Health

Iron crosses marking graves are silhouetted against storm clouds building over a cemetery Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Victoria, Kan. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File U.S. life expectancy jumped last...

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses. Credit: Public Domain An elderly patient in Louisiana is in "critical condition" with severe avian influenza, US authorities announced Wednesday,...

A remote First Nation in northwestern Ontario that has been under a boil water advisory for 19 years has declared a state of emergency over recent contamination within its water...

A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., health officials said Wednesday.The patient had been in contact with sick and dead birds...

A Manitoba woman had her right leg amputated after complications following a knee replacement surgery two months earlier.Roseanne Milburn, 61, went ahead with the scheduled amputation last Friday, after weeks of complications...

The withdrawal of University of Alberta resident physicians from on-call shifts at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in July resulted in a major disruption that saw scores of surgeries cancelled or...

The federal government is promising a suite of measures to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and strengthen 24/7 surveillance of the Canada-U.S. border — including outfitting the RCMP with helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance...

The jury in an Ontario coroner's inquest has declared the death of Abdirahman Abdi, a Black man who died a day after his violent arrest by two Ottawa police officers, a homicide....

A Saskatchewan mother says she is delighted and relieved that her son will be able to attend school full-time after five years of fighting for inclusion."I'm going to happy cry," Chelsea...

The family of a B.C. man with bipolar disorder and chronic back pain is suing the federal and provincial governments after he allegedly used a day pass from hospital to end...