Health

A Western University student who was seriously burned in a frat house fire in December of last year has received a revolutionary new treatment in a world first, thanks to burn experts in Hamilton, Ont.

The federal government says the toxic drug crisis continues to have devastating effects despite a decrease in opioid-related deaths last year.

When taking oral medication, the liquid used to take it with often doesn’t get a second thought. But new research suggests it matters more than people may realize.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has increased to 782, with 181 deaths, the Congolese Ministry of Health said in a statement on social platform X on Sunday evening.

A new Ontario Dementia Task Force, involving more than 35 organizations, will spend the next year creating a care co-ordination model.

Amid months of labour unrest in England, a new report published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has revealed that doctors and medical specialists in that country are looking to make the jump across the Atlantic, with some eyeing a move to Canada to set up their practice.

A researcher was able to find 13 ticks in just one hour, highlighting a growing public health concern in many parts of North America.

Senior doctors in the U.K. are feeling ‘increasingly unvalued’ and burned out, ‘quiet quitting’ and looking to move to Canada or Australia as a result, according to an article in a medical journal.

For decades, chemotherapy has been one of the most powerful weapons against childhood leukemia, but for kids, it can come with a cost. Leukemia begins in the bone marrow, the tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made.

Nearly 1 in 7 adults are affected by social anxiety disorder (SAD), a new study, published  June 1, from the University of Toronto has found.

A Metro Vancouver hospital has begun offering earplugs and eye masks to patients stuck in hospital hallways and policymakers are now considering doing the same at more sites, CTV News has learned.

A high school student from Ontario is breaking medial barriers.

Health Canada is warning parents and caregivers to stop using a wooden pacifier clip sold online after determining it may pose a choking hazard for infants.

New research suggests that misunderstandings and mistakes when it comes to health information and medication instructions are widespread.

The federal government has launched a new advisory committee on preventive health care more than a year after pausing the work of a task force that had come under fire for failing to keep up with expert advice on cancer screening.