Woman's Health Magazine announces it is banning "bikini body" and other terms from its cover pages.
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Woman's Health Magazine announces it is banning "bikini body" and other terms from its cover pages.
Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defence: Her body is a brewery.
Bullying during adolescence may be tied to health problems that follow teens into adulthood, a Canadian study suggests.
New Year's celebrations can be tricky business when the time comes to pop the cork a bottle of champagne. Here's how to open one safely.
A new study out of the Canadian Paediatric Society found that 70 per cent of children have trouble sleeping and almost one-third of those parents give their kids medication to help them sleep.
Landon Webb tells CBC's As It Happens a judge has ruled he can speak freely and challenge Nova Scotia's Incompetent Person Act.
For a second year in a row, Canadian fitness experts are touting functional fitness and high-intensity interval training as top workout trends.
About 15 million people use mercury as they process ore as they mine for gold in developing countries. They're risking their health and the future of the environment.
A 10-year-old Caledon, Ont., boy with rare blood condition desperately needs a stem cell transplant to save his life. But his mixed Afghan-Vietnamese ancestry makes finding a match difficult.
Crowdfunding has become increasingly popular to pay uninsured medical bills, but a professor questions whether that's the best way to approach a gap in care.
Kalobios, the troubled drugmaker taken over by Martin Shkreli last month, is seeking bankruptcy protection less than two weeks after his arrest on securities fraud.
Ten things you likely won't need for better health in 2016
Heather Brenan's death was inevitable but her poor treatment at Winnipeg's Seven Oaks Hospital was unnecessary, says an inquest report released on Tuesday.
The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario is asking dentists in the province to limit prescriptions for addictive opioids, such as oxycodone and codeine, in response to a high number of overdoses.
A woman in Nova Scotia, who was able to escape domestic abuse, was inspired to write open letter at Christmas, when stress goes up and domestic violence increases.
A P.E.I. illness is one of 39 cases of salmonella infections added in the last three weeks to a national outbreak, reported by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Researchers are bringing the outside world into the lab to solve problems from preventing falls on stairs to understanding how a bar triggers cravings for booze.
Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus in the West African nation, leaving Liberia as the only country still awaiting a countdown for the end of the epidemic.
Weight training helps age-related deterioration in parts of the brain, Canadian researchers have shown.
A recent spate of deaths likely caused by drug overdoses in Victoria have advocates renewing calls for a supervised injection site in the city.
The baby girl at the centre of a court battle over whether or not to leave her on life support has died.
For college football players, practicing without helmets and shoulder pads may help reduce the number of head impacts in later practices and games, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Manitoba are looking for deaf and hard of hearing Manitobans to participate in a new study covering uncharted territory — discovering how people who use American Sign Language convey sarcasm.
A Chinese company is claiming it has the technology to clone humans but is holding off because it says the public isn't ready. That's likely true, experts say, and it's not likely to change because there isn't a powerful enough medical reason that could swing public opinion.
"Dementors" are leaving a trail of death and destruction on the sprawling Blood reserve in southwestern Alberta as a fentanyl epidemic sweeps through the community.
Asthma rates in U.S. children have quieted down after a decades-long increase, a government study found, and researchers are trying to pinpoint reasons that would explain the trend.
A Manitoba indigenous woman who advocated for victims of asbestos-linked cancers has died.
Despite a 2015 deadline for all patients to have an electronic health record, only two-thirds of Ontarians have a digital medical file as the year draws to a close, according to the latest figures from eHealth Ontario.
Canadian researchers say there's no evidence the risky procedure will have any benefit.
Will Smith's new movie Concussion comes to theatres on Christmas Day and it's bound to make NFL fans, players, owners and league management very uncomfortable. Sports Illustrated writer Emily Kaplan explains why.
The Give Life campaign run by Canadian Blood Services has been highly successful in getting people to roll up their sleeves and donate during the holiday season.
Singing together acts as a quick icebreaker, researchers and choir members say.
James Bond’s villain in the latest film, Spectre, could use a lesson in neuroanatomy, a Toronto neurosurgeon says.
Vancouver Police are once again warning drug users of a rash of overdoses, four of which have resulted in death within the last 24 hours.
A 10-year-old boy from Baie-Ste-Anne will have the annual cost of his medication covered by the province after all.
Adults who score well on the American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 checklist are less likely than others to develop heart failure, according to a new study.
Amidst the chaos of the holidays, and particularly if your house hasn't been "childproofed" but you're expecting children to visit, there are some simple things that can minimize potential hazards.
Now that the right to die is enshrined in Quebec, supporters of assisted dying are hoping other provinces will follow its lead.
The Trudeau government is following through on a Conservative plan to extend compassionate care leave from six to 26 weeks on Jan. 3 and it plans to expand the number of people who can take advantage of the enriched employment insurance plan later in the year.
A report card on a federal drug treatment court program, which diverts drug-addicted offenders from jail and into treatment, is effective but missing its intended population: women, youth and aboriginals. The evaluation says the problem may get worse as funding is effectively cut.
South Korea on Wednesday declared a formal end to an outbreak of the MERS virus that killed 38 people and sickened dozens of others since May.
Ebola survivors commonly show joint pain, vision problems and hearing problems that underscore the urgent need to provide follow-up care in West Africa, researchers say.
A mass screening for tuberculosis in the Northern Quebec community of Salluit will be put on hold for Christmas, after unearthing 30 active cases of the disease and another 31 latent cases.
Two more recalled Bauer hockey goalie masks with cages have broken and caused severe eye injuries since the original recall in March, Health Canada says.
Sudden cardiac arrest may not always be so sudden: New research suggests a lot of people may ignore potentially life-saving warning signs hours, days, even a few weeks before they collapse.
Quebec's Court of Appeal has maintained the province's right to allow terminally ill patients the choice to die with medical help.
Saskatchewan's HIV epidemic is spreading to its youngest and most vulnerable.
A Dalhousie University health law researcher wants scientists, doctors and journalists to use a little known power buried in a recently passed law to access drug industry data that Ottawa has long kept secret. He's even created a handy template to make the request.
A radiologist who says she was told she no longer had a job in the late stages of her pregnancy has filed a human rights complaint, and now she and two colleagues are accusing a Newfoundland health authority of inappropriate behaviour.
Fashion models in the U.S. who are dangerously thin should be banned from participating in fashion shows or photo shoots like their counterparts in France, public health experts say.