Health

The company said Thursday it has identified fruit- and vegetable-based juices that will give cereals like Froot Loops and Apple Jacks their distinctive colours.

U.S. health authorities are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Javiana infections linked to fresh jalapeno peppers.

At the same time Windsor-Essex is seeing an increase in cyclosporiasis cases, the association representing Ontario’s greenhouse growers is urging residents to remain confident in their products.

Sydney Towle, a social media content creator who projected enduring optimism as she chronicled her life with a rare form of cancer, has died, according to her family. She was 26.

A popular brand of chicken burgers sold in Canada is being pulled from shelves.

A Saskatoon man says it was heartbreaking to see his 88-year-old father spend nearly five days receiving care in a hallway in the emergency department at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Health Canada has recalled Ultra Big Blue Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner because it does not meet Canadian labelling and child-resistant packaging requirements.

The Granby Zoo is asking visitors who might have had physical contact with a Japanese macaque to contact public health after a 'minor incident' on Tuesday.

Congolese health authorities monitored Thursday passengers traveling on a boat stationed near Kinshasa after a traveler died with symptoms matching the Ebola virus.

Africa’s top health agency announced Thursday it would roll out a vaccine for a previous Ebola strain to counter the latest devastating outbreak in the DR Congo.

Dr. Stacy Norton was only 7 years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members struck by aggressive tumors at unusually young ages. Decades later, Norton rolled up her sleeve to help test if a new kind of vaccine might protect her and her own children from cancer.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Moderna’s flu vaccine for people aged 50 and older, the company said on Wednesday, marking the first approval of a messenger RNA-based vaccine for seasonal flu.

Many families are in the lurch since approximately 4,000 community, health and social services workers across Ontario stopped work in the spring.

A new study suggests that heat waves may contribute to speeding up biological aging, adding to the growing concerns about climate change’s impacts.

Avoiding three health factors may delay the odds of developing dementia by about 13 years, a new study has found: type 2 diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure.