Health

A new study reveals just how important this simple habit can be to living a healthier, happier life.

'Clock genes' may help identify a child’s risk of developing obesity and provide an opportunity to adjust diets early in life to prevent the disease, a new study suggests.

Ontario has recently lowered the age for colorectal cancer screening, a move a physician with the Ottawa Hospital says will help increase prevention of a disease that’s becoming increasingly common.

Health Canada is eliminating the last remaining barriers that prevented gay and bisexual men from donating to sperm banks in this country.

Three people have been treated for rabies exposure after coming in contact with a stray cat that recently was confirmed as having contracted raccoon rabies, the regional health board for the South Shore of Montreal said Thursday.

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is advising residents travelling to Michigan to take extra precautions after a sharp rise in local cases of cyclosporiasis linked to cross-border travel.

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City that led to seven deaths and 84 people hospitalized has ended, the New York City Department of Health announced in a statement on Friday.

Jilleen Niles sits in a bed at the Ottawa Hospital, fatigued from five hours of chemotherapy, but determined to speak out to prevent others from sitting in the same spot.

There have been 29 confirmed cases of Vibrio vulnificus — a flesh-eating bacteria — so far this year in Maryland waters, along with nearly 100 probable cases, according to Dr. Clifford Mitchell, the Director of the Environmental Health Bureau in the Maryland Department of Health.

Toronto is seeing the return of summer’s least-welcome visitors: mosquitoes. As their unwelcome buzz hums again in the city, so do concerns about West Nile virus, after Toronto Public Health reported its first confirmed case of the year.

Experts are concerned about a resurgence in the popularity of tanning among young adults as social media has helped tanning in general make a comeback.

What will be Ontario’s first medical school devoted to training family doctors is getting a cash infusion.

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo, official data released on Thursday showed, marking a 50 per cent increase in around a week that shows the emergency continuing to outpace response efforts.

Toronto public health officials are reporting the first human case of West Nile virus in the city in 2026.

Concerns over dangerous tick-borne illnesses are higher than ever in Nova Scotia, alongside a rising number of reported diseases caused by tick bites.