Health

Health Canada has issued two separate recall alerts due to concerns over incorrect dosing – one involving melatonin supplements and other involving acetaminophen tablets.

The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was a manmade pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan, China.

A brisk walking pace may lower the risk of heart rhythm abnormalities, a new study suggests.

Measles has spread to 109 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province’s total cases to 925 since an outbreak began in October.

'Matter of Time,' a documentary featuring Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder that is set to debut this summer at the Tribeca Film Festival, is being billed as much more than a concert film – it’s a rallying cry for action.

Quebec’s ministry of health says it’s on the verge of declaring its measles outbreak over, just as cases reach new heights in other parts of the country.

A product from a popular U.S. and Canada toy company is being recalled nationally for containing lead.

Authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador say highly potent cocaine is circulating in the province, and killing more people than fentanyl.

As measles outbreaks popped up across the U.S. this winter, pediatricians waited for the nation’s public health agency to send a routine, but important, letter that outlines how they could help stop the spread of the illness.

Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft 'pandemic treaty' that sets guidelines for how the international community might confront the next global health crisis.

There’s a new specialized MRI at Toronto’s SickKids hospital for babies like Yalman—a critically ill newborn—where they can get scanned without even having to leave the neonatal intensive care unit.

The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) and Opposition NDP claim that recent staffing and capacity pressures has led to some mothers and their newborns forced to seek treatment in North Dakota, a claim the provincial government has outright denied.

U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has released new guidelines on how to treat children and teenagers living with obesity.

With the first generation of people exposed widely to technology now approaching old age, how has its use affected their risk of cognitive decline?