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Thousands of Torontonians who once had no dedicated physician to treat their routine medical care now have a family doctor to turn to, thanks to two new services being offered by a health team in the city that has connected more than 15,000 patients.
University of Alberta researchers are making slow but sure — pun intended — developments in organ transplant and heart surgery medicine inspired by snail hibernation.
When AI-powered cameras on bridges over Seoul’s Han River raise the alarm that someone may be about to jump, acting quickly is vital.
Confirmed cases in Congo’s ongoing Ebola outbreak have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in an overnight update, nearly the same as the 2018-20 outbreak that is the largest ever recorded in the country.
A key question in a Massachusetts murder trial is whether postpartum psychosis drove a mother to kill her three children.
U.S. produce supplier Taylor Farms complained to White House and Food and Drug Administration officials about the government’s inspection process earlier this month, a source familiar with the meeting said on Monday, as Michigan reported a spike in cases of a parasitic disease tied to the company’s lettuce from Mexico.
Mental health experts say there's a worsening crisis inside of fluorescent-lit emergency rooms across the country — psychiatric patients wait far longer for an in-patient bed than other people.
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it would pay US$5.5 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer in a landmark settlement.
For the third time this month, the emergency room serving P.E.I.’s westernmost communities is closed, meaning patients in urgent situations must seek care elsewhere.
The science has never been better, but political will has reached a new low: AIDS experts warned Monday that the fight against HIV was in real danger as funding fell by a fifth last year.
Two weeks before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its cyclosporiasis health warning on July 14, Michigan warned of an unusually large outbreak of parasitic disease that was causing explosive diarrhea.
The deadline is fast approaching for Canadians to claim their share of a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit over the drug Rexulti.
From beauty mogul Kylie Jenner lighting up on the cover of Vanity Fair to cigarette trays at singer Dua Lipa’s wedding, the pop culture-verse has rebooted cigarettes as the accessory du jour, health risks be damned.
Canadian Blood Services is urging Canadians to book blood donation appointments after the national blood supply fell 20 per cent in six weeks. Officials say the decline is worse than a typical summer slowdown, and they still don’t know exactly why.
Several doctors are reopening the debate about ‘death by organ donation’ in a new paper published in a medical journal.
The toilet humor took a disturbing turn when some people on social media suggested they wanted to contract this infection for its potential weight-loss effects.
