Category: Health Fitness

Many people with advanced prostate cancer are living much longer due to new treatments, leading prostate cancer doctors say. Though…

Nick Bordignon was still deep in grief over the death of his infant daughter last October when an envelope from the…

Measles cases are surging across Canada, so it might not come as a surprise that nearly 70 per cent of…

As southern Alberta battles its worst measles outbreak in decades, some doctors are warning the virus is more rampant than the…

Canada’s minister of agriculture says a group of B.C. ostriches will “not necessarily” be killed, despite an order from the Canadian…

Dorothy Lamont, 96, lives independently in her downtown Dartmouth home, still growing her own vegetables in her backyard every summer.…

High-profile officials in the U.S. federal government, along with a prominent billionaire, are now weighing in on the fate of…

Nova Scotia’s internal travel nurse program is off to a slow start, but officials say that’s by design. The program,…

A month after the start of the high-profile sexual assault trial of five former junior hockey players in London, Ont.,…

When Lily MacDonald first signed in to an online workout session for women with COPD, she was sure she wasn’t…

Kristyne Agabob and Lisa Brooks from the Looking Glass Foundation say that the rate of eating disorders has increased since…

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has talked to Canadian health officials about sparing a flock of ostriches…

The Current23:49Adulting 101: How Gen Z fell behind on basic life skills Aldhen Garcia, a first-year student at Toronto Metropolitan…

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“Do you want to go faster?”  Jayne Imeson already knew the answer she was going to get from her six-year-old…

Health P.E.I. has hired six senior managers on an interim basis through private employment agencies at costs ranging from $17,490…

Public Health Ontario says 173 more people have been infected with measles in the province over the past week. That…

3 hours ago News Duration 5:05 After a landmark ruling by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in 2021, the…

Emergency room doctors in Lethbridge are warning that ongoing staffing shortages could make growing wait times even longer. An open…

The late-stage cancer diagnosis of former U.S. president Joe Biden has some medical professionals wondering how the disease was able…

Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday intended to improve preparedness for future pandemics following the…

Canadians who need a hip or knee replacement could get the surgery more quickly — without adding to health-care budgets…

On The Island7:32Texas nurse wants to move to Nanaimo BC is streamlining the process for US nurses to come work…

Misinformation is making it hard for Canada to reach the vaccination levels needed to prevent the spread of measles, experts say…

This First Person article is the experience of Maggie Campbell, a wife and mom in P.E.I. For more information about…

The Dose23:43Why are my allergies getting worse? Most people with seasonal allergies have likely noticed an uncomfortable trend over the…

There have been 37 reported measles cases in Saskatchewan from mid-March to mid-May this year, Saskatchewan’s chief medical officer said…

Pharmacists in Manitoba will soon be able to prescribe birth control, the province’s health minister revealed this week in an…

The jury in a British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the overdose death of a University of Victoria student has recommended…

Shawn Richards died at the age of 37 after ingesting toxic drugs in the room of a supportive housing building…

Understanding Beauty Website Return and Refund Policies Online shopping for beauty products offers convenience, but navigating return and refund policies…

The World Health Organization has reduced its management team by half and will have to scale back operations, its director-general…

A global study from UNICEF suggests many Canadian kids are unhappy, with social struggles such as bullying and difficulty making…

A B.C. ostrich farm says it is devastated by a federal court ruling Tuesday that upholds an order to have…

The province is making it easier and faster for nurses from the U.S. to get registered in B.C., in an…

First Nations leaders are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to tackle a number key priorities in the first 100 days of…

Infectious disease experts are raising the alarm about measles spread in Alberta, warning case counts are far higher than neighbouring provinces and…

When Marie Grgic’s mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she said her father had to use his retirement funds to…

This First Person column is the experience of Luke Galati, who lives in Toronto. For more information about CBC’s First…

A second family from Gaza has arrived in Manitoba to get “life-changing” medical care for their kindergarten-aged son they couldn’t…

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U.S. and European health regulators are warning the public of possible health risks linked to finasteride, a popular hair-loss drug. …

The IWK is launching a new research unit aimed at helping patients with breast cancer across Nova Scotia. The idea came…

An expert in emergency medicine testified at the Sidney McIntyre-Starko coroner’s inquest that software used by British Columbia 911 operators takes…

The foundation of the new long-term care facility in Chester, N.S., is nearly complete, a milestone in a development the…

Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Premier Doug Ford defended on Wednesday the province’s approach to the measles outbreak as new…

When Diane Chandler found a unit in Surrey’s Foxglove supportive housing building in 2023, the main thing her children hoped…

The CAQ government has come up with $85 million to make upgrades to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. The first phase of…

JAMP Pharma Corp. says it is recalling one lot of its pregabalin pain medication because some bottles labelled to contain 50-milligram capsules…

The Alberta government says it is taking new steps to rein in the province’s measles outbreaks as case counts surge…

A public inquiry into the death of a quadriplegic man begins today in Quebec — over a year after he…

The McGill University Health Centre’s Surgical Performance Enhancement and Robotics Centre is hoping to “contribute to the shaping of the…

The Current23:33Grey divorce: Why more Canadians are separating later in life When Marnie Wraith looked at her relationship and asked…

55:49What questions do you have about making friends as an adult? For adults, making new friends can be an uphill…

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Several years ago, Molly Carlson enjoyed posting “perfectly captured and edited pictures” to her Instagram account. Faking, she says, almost…

Two unions representing workers at Halifax hospital sites say parking problems for employees are so acute that it will become a…

The measles outbreak continues to spread across the province, with cases climbing in Elgin and Oxford counties.  Southwestern Public Health is…

Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday, but…

Strong winds knocked the power out at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, leaving the intensive care unit and surgery block in the dark…

B.C.’s privacy watchdog has taken the unusual step of issuing a court order compelling the province’s Northern Health Authority to…

The 911 call placed by a dorm-mate as University of Victoria student Sidney McIntyre-Starko was suffering a fatal fentanyl overdose was played…

Alberta has experienced its deadliest flu season in recent memory and it’s not over yet. According to provincial data, 193 Albertans…

A Toronto doctor under investigation after thousands of people were potentially exposed to blood-borne infections at her gynecology office has…

A doctor running a network of addiction clinics across Ontario, including an Ottawa location that offers safer opioid supply, is…

Federal party leaders and provincial governments are trying to make it easier for workers to seamlessly move between provinces as…

The Dose24:04Why do we smell (and how concerned should we be about it)? As the weather warms up and we…

Karthik Babu Menon is ready to vote in his first-ever federal election, but he’s not just thinking about how to…

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Alberta’s measles outbreak is now the worst recorded in nearly three decades and that has health experts raising the alarm…

Quebec has officially passed a law requiring doctors to work in the public health-care system for five years after obtaining…

It’s only April, and 2025 is already shaping up to be the worst year for measles since the disease was…

Richard Anderson holds a photo of himself and his brother Bruce as children. In 2021, Bruce died of a suspected…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to phase out some food dyes. While some of that effort predated the…

Quebec’s Health Ministry has declared an end to the measles outbreak in the province. A spokesperson said Tuesday the department determined…

RCMP say a 15-year-old has died of a suspected drug overdose in Campbell River, B.C., believed to involve the prescription opioid…

Beautiful Mess is a series that mines the wisdom of parents in Saskatchewan who have experienced difficult circumstances. When Dennie…

Liberal Party pledges to make an access to abortion fund permanent, spend up to $20,000 for IVF treatment and invest in data collection on issues…

Ahead of the federal election, Canadians are worried about access to health care. Some private clinics, which are growing in…

The Alberta government appointed Dr. Sunil Sookram as interim chief medical officer of health Thursday amid growing measles outbreaks and after the previous…

The Dose22:15What do I need to know about the federal government’s role in health care? Most Canadians know it’s a…

The IWK Health Centre says it has been bombarded with feedback as it looks to overhaul its menu. The Halifax…

Quebec’s Health Ministry says it’s on the verge of declaring its measles outbreak over, just as cases reach new heights…

Measles pread to 109 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province’s total cases to 925 since…

Election day is less than two weeks away, but Rowena Edwards is still unsure who she should vote for. “Honestly,…

Members of the World Health Organization reached a landmark agreement on Wednesday on how to learn from COVID-19, which killed…

Dr. Mark Joffe is no longer Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, leaving the province without a top doctor as it…

An open letter from a group of Manitoba researchers has garnered support from hundreds of other scientists and academics across the…

A Federal Court judge will begin hearing arguments Tuesday in the case of a B.C. ostrich farm which has been…

Nine years ago, former B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall declared a public health emergency in response to a…

It’s hard to get any further from Australia than downtown Toronto, so for a dual-citizen like Leighton Walters, the quickest…

On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox wrote in his diary, “Today is the day it all begins,” after starting his…

White Coat Black Art26:30Meet the people who help sedate you One solution to a critical shortage of anesthesiologists in Canada…

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White Coat Black Art26:30Public healthcare is a national crisis. So why isn’t it an election priority? In this federal election…

A nurse practitioner whose research at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children is dedicated to helping children and teens manage pain…

Nova Scotia’s health authority issued a tender on Thursday for master planning services as part of the continued redevelopment of the…

Canada has a unique chance to become a medical and scientific powerhouse — if it moves quickly to scoop up…

The Manitoba government says a program introducing advanced care paramedics at seven locations will improve medical care for emergencies throughout rural and…

Dr. Sophia Halassy couldn’t be happier. The 32-year old bilingual obstetrician-gynecologist is settling into a new job at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University…

Multiple pharmacists linked to a south Thunder Bay, Ont., pharmacy face an additional set of misconduct allegations by the profession’s…

Ontario schools are starting to issue suspensions to some of the thousands of students who aren’t fully vaccinated, as the…

A Canadian researcher has won a 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the GLP-1 hormone used in diabetes and…

Ontario’s measles outbreak has become so big that public health officials in New York state have included the province in…

The Dose25:07How do I deal with stress in situations I can’t fully control? Political science professor Julie Simmons is no…

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. travelled to West Texas on Sunday after a second unvaccinated school-aged child died…

A Burnaby spa employee who provided purported vaginal-tightening treatments has been found guilty on all seven charges of sexual assault by a…

Health officials in three Ontario hotspots for measles are focusing on communication and vaccination to help get the outbreaks under control.…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to…

Recent city data shows the number of non-fatal suspected overdoses paramedics respond to has declined over the last six months. The…

Patrick Cully wasn’t sure his daughter Scarlet would ever be able to say, “I love you.” But she’s now talking,…

Nova Scotia’s health authority says it has hired one doctor eager to leave the United States because of President Donald…

Saskatchewan adults might not have sufficient immunity to the latest measles outbreak and are being asked to check their vaccination…

Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk. Using the…

This First Person column is by Eyasu Yakob, who is a nursing student in Edmonton. For more information about CBC’s…

Some fungal diseases in humans no longer respond to medicines, which increases the risk of severe illness and death as…

Community support worker Kyle Arnold says detoxing from drugs is one of the hardest things he’s ever done, but seeing…

Ontario is failing to provide adequate mental health services for youth and children, according to the province’s auditor general. In…

When Susannah McKenzie-Sutter heard her cousin in Ontario needed a kidney transplant, the 28-year-old Saint John woman didn’t hesitate to offer…

An Ontario judge has granted an injunction to keep 10 supervised consumption sites open while he considers a Charter challenge…

The Dose19:40What do I need to know about benzodiazepines? Within 10 minutes of disclosing his sleepless nights to his family…

It cost $25 million to build, but barely a year after its opening and less than six months in operation,…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to…

Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1…

At the end of the fourth round in a six-round fight on Aug. 28, 2021, Jeanette Zacarias Zapata went into…

7 days ago News Duration 2:55 Originally touted as a healthier option than cigarettes, statistics show vaping’s popularity is rising…

The Cure is a CBC News series examining strategies provinces and territories are using to tackle the primary care crisis.…

Weekly tutoring sessions. Reluctance to see friends in person. These are just some ways in which the educational impacts of COVID-19 still…

As Canada deals with its largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, health experts say a COVID-era tool could help…

Around 10:45 on the morning of Feb. 25, Lee Goguen asked her father if he had any last requests. The death that…

When Bruce Masales was diagnosed with Stage 4 bladder cancer, he says the news came without warning. But as a longtime volunteer…

Wietske Flor goes through every day wondering when the next seizure will hit.  Sometimes, the seizures happen multiple times a…

The health unit for Oxford County, Elgin County and the City of St. Thomas is dealing with almost half of…

Quirks and Quarks19:30Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage COVID may no longer…

When Jennie Passche gets sick, she finds herself in a competition to get care. The 65-year-old in Esquimalt, on B.C.’s…

In an 11-page court document filed Thursday, the former CEO of Alberta Health Services alleges the province’s health minister and…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to…

Measles is so infectious that when under-vaccinated individuals mingle, they’ll always be at risk. That’s why public health officials are…

Hundreds of nurses rallied outside several Ontario hospitals on Thursday to demand that CEOs improve staffing levels across the province. The…

Canada has slipped to 18th place in the global World Happiness Report, down three spots from last year and placing it…

Marcie McIlveen never thought she’d work in a hospital. Due to her negative experiences in treatment for substance use disorder on…

The provincial government has for years kept a hand in the contracting-out of private surgeries through Alberta Health Services, despite…

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for…

As concerns about measles grow, and case counts tick up, health-care workers are preparing for a surge and pleading with Albertans…

Testing wastewater for diseases and viral activity gained prominence during the pandemic, but scientists are concerned that funding for such…

The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as…

WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide.  Marc Turner’s mother remembers him coming home with a prescription in the fall…

Protesters demanding the government provide more funding and treatment for people with long COVID gathered at a demonstration at the Vancouver…

The Dose22:51What does the research show about the benefits of creatine supplements? Creatine is a naturally occurring compound that provides…

As anxiety grew among Nova Scotians over the fear of the arrival of COVID-19 in early March 2020, Premier Stephen McNeil wanted…

White Coat Black Art26:30Saving elderly patients from the hazards of the ER It’s 7 a.m. in the emergency department of…

The province’s chief medical officer of health is urging Ontarians to make sure they are immunized against the measles, amid the most…

The Alberta government wants to cut more than $400 million in the fees it pays to doctors, according to a…

Ontario is seeing a massive surge in measles cases as an ongoing outbreak spreads in the province among mostly unvaccinated…

Two people died a little over an hour apart in Victoria on Monday, Victoria police and the B.C. Coroners Service have confirmed.  An…

Dr. Alex Wong vividly remembers the night, five years ago, when he read modelling data about the potential surge of COVID-19…

British Columbia has turned its eye toward luring doctors and nurses from the United States to move north in what Health…

When Nathanael Rafinejad first moved to Montreal, they loved the city’s nightlife and worked as a bartender and a waiter…

Hantavirus, the rodent-borne pathogen blamed for the death of concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, is…

Conversations are happening in Nova Scotia about developing the first midwifery education program east of Quebec. Documents released to CBC…

Retired nurse Valerie Alderson doesn’t find herself thinking back to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic anymore, but when…

Stem cell researchers are trying to reverse a deadly genetic variant that’s plagued families in this province for generations. Those…

In defence of the Cialis and Viagra he was accused of passing off as “natural health” remedies, Yan (Andy) Zhang claimed he took…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to…

The annual death toll of people experiencing homelessness in British Columbia has nearly tripled in just a four-year period, according…

In the fall provincial election campaign, Premier David Eby and NDP candidates made bold promises for investments to improve the…

A historic deal that calls for three major tobacco companies to pay out billions in compensation to provinces and territories…

Public health officials are warning some 2,500 people they may have been exposed to blood-borne infections at a Toronto gynecology office where…

The federal government is moving to add PFAS, a class of thousands of chemicals used in a wide range of…

It’s been almost five years, but family members of Canadians who died of COVID-19 in the first year of the…

A former chief judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba will lead an investigation into the procurement practices of Alberta…

In Nanyuki, a market town just northwest of Mount Kenya, some foreign aid workers and volunteers are worried what U.S. President Donald…

When Kwaku Ayisi lost a friend who hadn’t even reached 40 to breast cancer, it inspired him to look at…

He was known as “the man with the golden arm.” James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was…

Another high ranking Alberta Health Services official has been ousted and hundreds of staff are being transferred to the province’s…

Andrea Hancock says she understands that people are angry with her daughter — she’s angry too — but she says…

White Coat Black Art26:30What if palliative care was about living better? Palliative care has an image problem. Despite what people…

Five years after the first reported COVID-19 case in Quebec, the province’s curfew remains controversial — more than half the fines…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration took part in a World Health…

As It Happens7:03For the 1st time in Canada, surgeons are putting teeth in patients’ eyes to restore sight When Brent…

Ontario is reporting 84 new measles cases over the last two weeks, nearly doubling the province’s total count since an…

The former head of Alberta Health Services, Athana Mentzelopoulos, tried to caution the government about the potential impact of chartered…

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in west Texas, the first death in an outbreak that…

The federal government has appointed former Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) president Aluki Kotierk to oversee an external review of the Nutrition North…

WARNING: This story contains an image of an infant with serious injuries and a description of the injury and death…

The administrator and interim CEO of Alberta Heath Services changed AHS’s official rules to declare that only the deputy health…

When Lorraine Brown got her bone density scan results earlier this year, she was shocked to find that the lab…

Ken Rekowski has had to make a home of his room at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital for most of the…

The Current19:15How to beat insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy For more than 30 years, Faye Dickieson battled the exhausting effects…

Health A news release from Health Canada says the solvent can be absorbed through the skin or by inhaling it,…

White Coat Black Art26:30Primary care for all: Lessons from Denmark Emily Ritchie wasn’t nervous about finding a doctor in Denmark.…

The flu may be at its worst in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Flu…

It was in early January that Awanti Naik’s symptoms first crept up on her, starting with double vision and quickly…

Ontario’s Ministry of Health is asking some health units in the province to accelerate and expand administering measles vaccines as outbreaks…

Health Canada is warning people that unauthorized sexual enhancement products sold in at least three provinces may pose serious health risks. In a…