Category: Health

As It Happens7:01Not everyone can afford a pacemaker, so these doctors are recycling themIt's been more than a decade since a man walked into a Michigan hospital and made the...

Health Canada has approved Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy to reduce the risk of non-fatal heart attack, the drug maker says.Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that Wegovy is the first Health Canada-approved treatment for...

Less than a month after Kapuskasing's Sensenbrenner Hospital announced that its obstetrics program is at immediate risk of closing, a new report from the Northern Policy Institute is calling for...

The inquest for six inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre heard Tuesday that five of the men died overnight, one of several commonalities noted in testimony by a corrections consultant.Andrea Monteiro addressed the...

A Canadian non-profit that helps women obtain the abortion pill in countries with restrictions says it saw a fourfold increase in U.S. requests after the presidential election.The majority of inquiries...

A petition calling on the Quebec government to grant free access to all contraceptive methods has garnered nearly 100,000 signatures, far surpassing any petition so far this session.The petition was...

As the 988 national suicide prevention helpline marks its one-year anniversary, the three-digit helpline is making a difference in helping to prevent suicides, experts say. According the helpline, crisis responders with...

More than a quarter of New Brunswick kindergarten students did not meet the immunization requirements to enter public school in 2023-24, the latest figures from the Department of Health show.Only 71.8...

Warning: This story contains references to intimate partner violence.Billie Jo Barrett says it's hard talking about her experiences with domestic violence, but it's more difficult knowing other survivors have had their court cases stayed...

B.C. health officials say they still don't know how a teenager became infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu, but say no further cases have been identified.Earlier this month,...