Health

A rabid skunk may have bitten a two-year-old girl at a daycare in Granby, Que.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published a recall over the weekend for roasted black soybeans that were found to potentially contain an allergen not mentioned on the ingredients list.

Florida’s current dengue outbreak is the largest in several decades of any U.S. state.

Quebec’s aeromedical evacuation service has helped save over 100 lives since it began sending helicopters last summer, according to new government data.

The military is sending 15 nurses to Alberta to relieve those who have been providing care to soldiers injured three weeks ago in a deadly fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America’s cattle. That controls the pest because sterile males mate with wild females – whose eggs then fail to hatch. But the strategy works only if the supply of flies never runs short.

Canadians with severe allergies will now have greater access to what experts have called a game-changing treatment that delivers epinephrine without the use of a needle.

Canadians are being warned to “not buy or use” unauthorized peptides after potentially dangerous bacteria were discovered in seized drugs from China.

Thinking of leaving Canada? Personal finance contributor Christopher Liew looks at when your health coverage ends, how to keep it longer, and what to replace it with.

A Quebec parent is warning the public after she says her step-son was hospitalized after eating chocolate he received on Halloween that contained cannabis.

Public health officials in Durham Region are investigating possible measles exposure after a child who returned from international travel tested positive for the highly contagious disease.

When we think of obesity, the excessive accumulation of body fat, some tend to think of an individual who lacks the willpower and discipline to eat well and exercise. However, researchers are now saying that the science is revealing 'a much more complex story.'

In the course of scientific discovery, there are triumphant moments when researchers present their findings to a rapt audience that jumps to its feet for a standing ovation.

Advocates are welcoming Ottawa’s proposed change in the caregiver tax credit that would expand financial support to thousands more Canadian caregivers.

Two Montreal hospitals are currently experiencing high patient volumes.