More than 16,000 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly 7,000 have died, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.
An American family embrace after they hear the heart of their 21-year-old loved one who died in a house fire beat in the chest of a Vietnam War veteran.
In vitro fertilization will no longer be covered by the public health insurance plan, if a bill tabled by Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette at the National Assembly on Friday passes.
The Ebola virus has been found in semen up to 82 days after the onset of symptoms, the World Health Organization says in advising men who have recovered from the virus to abstain from sex for three months.
Canada will provide $500 million to help immunize children in developing countries, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today in Senegal.
A West Island woman is furious after being told to take her breastfeeding elsewhere — while shopping in a Babies 'R' Us store in a suburb just off the island of Montreal.
A pediatrics lecturer who says there's no evidence wearable devices for infants make babies safer "can't relate" because he's not a parent, according to the maker of one of those devices.
A hidden camera investigation by CBC Marketplace reveals that some homeopathic practitioners offer parents inaccurate advice about vaccine risks and unproven alternatives that are not approved by Health Canada as alternatives to vaccines.
The first doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed partly in Canada were injected into the first volunteers in Halifax today.
Health Minister Rona Ambrose says she will meet as soon as next week with thalidomide survivors, Canadians who were born with severe birth defects after their mothers were prescribed the Health Canada-approved drug in the 1960s.
Health Minister Rona Ambrose and Defence Minister Rob Nicholson are announcing new measures to help contain the outbreak of Ebola in western Africa. CBCnews.ca will carry the announcement live at 1 p.m. ET.
Myths about vaccines are powerful and prevalent. In some parts of Canada, more than 40 per cent of seven year olds do not have all their shots. Here are some of the most pervasive myths and what the science actually says.
Teenagers who have suffered a concussion or other traumatic brain injury are more likely to report using alcohol and drugs compared to peers with no history of such an injury, researchers have found.
Researchers are focusing on the differences between identical twins, rather than the similarities, in an attempt to rethink the nature versus nurture debate, and unlock medical mysteries including cancer.
Health Canada has issued warning letters to 20 medical marijuana companies demanding they tone down their advertising to bare bones. The firms have been given until Jan. 12 to comply or face possible revocation of their licences.
Not long ago in North America, moustaches were the preserve of "fops, foreigners or fiends," one cultural historian says. Now they have become part of an annual Movember ritual that raised globally over $131 million for men's health last year alone.
An experimental Ebola vaccine developed in the U.S. appears to be safe and promising in an early clinical trial, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Vancouver has become the first city in North America where prescription heroin is offered to addicts outside of a clinical trial.
The government says it will spend $2.3 million to create seven pilot projects to deal with low back pain across the province.
The death toll in the world's worst Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,689 out of 15,935 cases reported in eight countries by the end of Nov. 23, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Excess body weight caused about 481,000 new cancer cases in 2012, according to a new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization.
Premier Brian Gallant is removing a key regulation that has been a barrier to access to abortion services in New Brunswick. Follow CBC's live blog to learn more.
The Canada Border Service Agency has started asking travellers more pointed and specific questions about Ebola.
Two University of Windsor professors in Ontario have designed software they say predicts an epileptic seizure 17 minutes before it happens, and researchers believe it can potentially be applied to many other events, such as predicting heart attacks, earthquakes and the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Britain may be turning to pills for help in what would be the most drastic measure yet in the effort to curb this country’s significant drinking problem.
The Ontario government's move to ban flavoured tobacco, including menthols, could make the restrictions the most comprehensive in the country says a researcher.
Google is throwing its money, brain power and technology behind a spoon that allows people with essential tremors and Parkinson's Disease to eat without spilling.
Aboriginal Affairs does not know whether retailers in the North are passing on savings to consumers as a result of its Nutrition North program to make healthy food more affordable in remote northern parts of the country, the federal auditor general has found.
A P.E.I. woman is demanding an involuntary addictions treatment program on the Island after the death of her husband.
Fourteen students in Bathurst are taking a paramedic course after complaints in northern New Brunswick about the lack of French-speaking paramedics.
The federal government has to assess whether its services are "truly meeting the needs of Canadians," the auditor general said today in releasing audits critical of how long it takes veterans to access services and how a northern food subsidy is provided.
A Canadian medical team that travelled to Ukraine to do reconstructive surgery on people wounded in the revolution and the violent conflict in the eastern part of country found themselves transformed by the experience.
A Calgary woman says Thalidomide victims deserve yearly compensation from the federal government.
Bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone have been dumped in public places by burial workers who say they haven't been paid the special risk allowances they claim they were promised, the BBC reports.
Doctors and researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children are narrowing in on how to diagnose a rare lung disease.
A former clerk at the Rouge Valley hospital group in southern Ontario has been charged following an investigation into the alleged misuse of confidential information from maternity patients.
The number of recalls of defective prescription medicines in Canada has increased over the last nine years, British researchers have found.
A Toronto-based lawyer is interested in helping a Saskatchewan family fight its $1-million baby bill.
Merck & Co Inc says it will buy worldwide commercial rights to NewLink Genetics Corp's experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus.
Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans could benefit from a big chunk of cash being announced today by Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose and the True Patriot Love Foundation. CBCNews.ca is carrying the announcement live at 1 p.m. ET.
Having the knowledge of whether you're likely to get cancer or diabetes sounds too good to pass up. But a Saskatoon geneticist says, if you want a mail-order genetics test, it's buyer beware.
The Ontario government will move to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes and treat them much the same as regular cigarettes.
Radon, a colourless and odourless gas emitted through soil, is believed to be responsible for 16 per cent of lung cancer deaths in the country each year, but only one in three respondents was aware of health issues in a national survey.
The federal government will provide $200 million over six years to address mental health issues among members of the Canadian Forces.
