Health

A nurse working in the psychiatric emergency room of a Quebec City hospital is calling for stronger security measures after she said she was attacked while she and a colleague were trying to subdue an aggressive patient.

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto says a recent cybersecurity “incident” resulted in unauthorized access to the personal information of some of its current and former employees.

Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, which has been effective in past Ebola outbreaks, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners said Thursday, announcing a step seen as a major boost to efforts to contain what officials have described as the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 5,000 cases, government data showed Wednesday, as responders warn it is spreading at an unprecedented speed outpacing efforts to slow it in one of the country’s remotest regions.

For more than two years, Dillyn Burrows and her family have been waiting for a surgery they hoped would finally address her scoliosis

A single “tiger” mosquito, known to be an “aggressive” daytime biter, has been detected in the Niagara Region.

Researchers in the United States are warning of a possible link between sugar-sweetened drinks and gastric cancer.

Ontario will soon be putting out a call for proposals to create or expand 78 primary care teams, as it works toward a goal of attaching all Ontarians to primary care by 2029.

Flight attendants and pilots are at the highest risk of dying from radiation-related cancers — even more than people who work with radioactive materials, according to a new study.

A major pharmaceutical company is warning Canadians about black market sales of an ‘unapproved and illegal’ obesity drug.

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling several types of cheese products sold in Ontario and Quebec due to generic E. coli contamination.

Doctors say medical misinformation is leading to a growing number of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns, prompting fresh warnings from the medical community.

A new study finds many Americans still believe antibiotics should be taken for a week or longer, despite a shift toward shorter courses for many infections. A Canadian infectious diseases physician explains why patients should finish what is prescribed even as prescriptions themselves get shorter.

Health Canada has authorized a drug to treat moderate to severe hot flashes and night sweats in breast cancer patients.