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A village in the densely populated Philippine capital region launched a battle against dengue Wednesday by offering a token bounty to residents for captured mosquitos, dead or alive.
The health impacts of climate change are increasingly obvious, which is why one Canadian hospital is making climate change resilience central to its design.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to study how to expand access to in vitro fertilization and make it more affordable.
Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.
Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.
Researchers concluded that a particular case involved a distinct set of 'just right' conditions that allowed the virus to blow onto the chicken farm through the wind.
Some female physicians in the U.S. are considering moving north of the border to practice medicine due to the changing political landscape in their country.
The death rate from heart attacks is about 10 per cent higher in the winter, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, noting the danger can be even higher for older people. In addition to the strain of shoveling snow, cold weather raises blood pressure, which in itself is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
A popular outdoor gear company has issued a recall for certain children’s snowsuits due to the possible presence of mould.
For the past 13 months, Erica Bradbury moved back in with her parents in St. John’s, N.L. It’s not the life she imagined for herself at 37, but it’s one of the only ways to keep herself as comfortable as possible, as she battles anorexia nervosa that she believes will soon take her life.
Officials are warning travellers they may have been exposed to measles after an infected individual returned to B.C. from Southeast Asia.
Positivity rates for influenza are continuing to rise, with the latest numbers tying the 2022-23 season's peak for the highest since the COVID-19 pandemic at 24.3 per cent of tests detecting the virus.
Two house cats in Oregon were euthanized after testing positive for bird flu linked to their consumption of pet food made from raw chicken, state agriculture officials said on Friday.
Flu cases are continuing to rise across the country, public health data shows, with some areas particularly hard hit as vulnerable patients seek help at hospitals.
Alberta’s health ministry says two proposed private surgery clinics at the centre of allegations of high-level government corruption remain in limbo.
