University of Calgary researchers say years of playing Scrabble can cause people to use a different part of their brain to recognize words, and that could change how clinicians deal with traumatic brain injuries.
Children gain protection against asthma if exposed to four types of gut bacteria by the age of three months, as their immune system is being established, a team of researchers from British Columbia has discovered.
Would-be parents waiting to learn more about the Ontario government's funding of in-vitro fertilization treatments will have to wait a little longer.
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that all people with the HIV virus should be given antiretroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis, meaning 37 million people worldwide should be on treatment.
The majority of Canadians are in favour of either decriminalizing or legalizing recreational marijuana use, according to the latest findings of Vote Compass.
Falling TVs can cause more severe neck and head injuries among young children, especially toddlers, says a Canadian neurosurgeon who offers tips to prevent harm.
For the first time ever, there are now more people in Canada age 65 and over than there are under age 14, according to Statistics Canada.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals shares plunged Monday on news that the Canadian company is in the crosshairs of U.S. legislators as a result of steep price hikes on two heart drugs its sells.
Some unpaid caregivers are speaking up about the way they’ve been treated by their family and friends.
Health officials are defending when they decided to release information about an outbreak of tuberculosis in Nain, N.L., after a CBC News investigation found that months passed before they publicly acknowledged the scope of the issue in Labrador.
CBC's extensive news coverage of the Ebola crisis has won an International Emmy Award. The award-winning team consisted of senior correspondent Adrienne Arsenault, producer Stephanie Jenzer, and videographer Jean-François Bisson.
Preemies’ survival rates improve when the light is blocked from reaching the IV nutritional mixture they need, a Canadian review finds.
An AIDS health care group is defending an ad campaign in Los Angeles that links popular dating apps with the spread of sexual transmitted diseases.
Prescriptions that cost a fortune in Canada are offered free of charge in Sweden, or almost. I visited Stockholm to see the system for myself.
Oct. 3 event will feature a former NCAA basketball player, an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, and a B.C. businessman sharing their personal stories of anxiety.
When celebrities' health problems make the news, media reports help shape public knowledge about those conditions and procedures, suggests a new study from Austria.
Now that summer is officially over, many Canadians are likely looking to renew their gym passes — but there's another way to stay fit and flush with cash, says Jeff Woods, a long-time personal trainer and fitness lifestyle commentator on the Canadian Learning Channel.
Neuroscientist Dr. Charles Tator has asked the family of former NHL enforcer Todd Ewen to donate Ewen's brain so he can study it. Brent talks with Dr. Tator about his research into the effects concussions can have on athletes.
Donna DeLorme, a Calgary woman who became a fierce advocate for doctor-assisted suicide after struggling with multiple sclerosis for 18 years, has taken her own life.
A chemical process developed by scientists in Montreal could allow family doctors to one day use equipment as straightforward and cheap as a diabetic's blood sugar tests to diagnose a range of diseases in minutes from their offices, instead of waiting days for lab results.
A Kansas doctor and his wife were given decades-long prison sentences Thursday for their convictions in a moneymaking conspiracy linked to 68 drug overdose deaths, with the judge saying the couple was motivated purely by greed.
A U.S. drug company is taking the Canadian government to court for its attempt to lower the price of what has been called the world's most expensive drug.
Canadians should pay attention to the overall quality of their diet instead of just focusing on saturated fats or other individual nutrients, the Heart and Stroke Foundation recommends.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority has confirmed a 78-year-old woman has died after a legionnaires' disease outbreak in Dartmouth.
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt, a social media campaign to put credible information on how to manage children’s pain directly in the hands of parents, is part of unique venture between researchers and a popular parenting website.
It's often said that only suckers pay the sticker price. But that's what Canada often pays for prescription drugs, according to experts, because of a regulatory system that's fallen out of step with the realities of today's pharmaceutical market.
The Canadian Medical Association is seeking consistency in the laws surrounding physician assisted dying in Canada before next February. Dr. Jeff Blackmer will be speaking at UNB about the challenges Canada faces.
Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives, a blind spot in modern medicine that can have devastating consequences, says a new report that calls for urgent changes across health care.
Jenny Tierney, the former executive director of Nunavut's Embrace Life Council, says after witnessing a community devastated by the death by suicide of an 11-year-old boy she can't imagine why the territory isn't doing everything it can to combat the issue.
The Calgary Eyeopener columnist rounds up the latest information and non-information about the creepy crawlers.
Teens and young adults are often the ones who die from severe allergic reactions, and experts say it's partly because they're grappling with more independence and a desire to fit in.
Ian MacArthur was known as the person who could be trusted with personal problems and even talked a friend out of committing suicide, but two months ago the 19-year-old Stephenville man took his own life.
Two days after 33-year-old Michael Thompson died of a prescription drug overdose, on March 18, a padded envelope arrived in the mail for the Hantsport, N.S. man.
The government's decision to accelerate the resettlement of 10,000 Syrian refugees by next fall comes after debate about the government's cuts to refugee health care during last week's debate on the economy. Are "bogus" refugees the only people affected by federal health cuts?
Pharmacists in Newfoundland and Labrador now have the ability to offer prescriptions and treatment for minor ailments that would normally see patients waiting at the doctor's office.
Memorial University president Gary Kachanoski says a breakdown in communication is to blame for last week's incident involving a hard-of-hearing student and a professor who refuses to wear a sound-transmitting device during her lectures at the St. John's campus.
Coca-Cola disclosed Tuesday that it spent $118.6 million on health research and partnerships in the U.S. over the past five years, including funding for a group that was criticized for downplaying the role of sugary drinks in fuelling obesity.
Representatives of education, social services, corrections and the Nunavut Housing Corporation say that in order for the territory to address the risk factors for suicide, the territory needs to improve living conditions and education rates.
Stocks of makers of biologic and "specialty" drugs plunged Monday after Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said she'll soon release a plan to address "price gouging" in the industry.
Front-line tuberculosis doctors in Canada were recently sticker shocked when the price of an essential medication for drug-resistant TB went through the roof for no apparent reason.
A first-year student died from a severe allergic reaction during the first week of classes at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.
The head of a panel looking into legislative options to govern doctor-assisted death says a recent fact-finding tour in Europe has opened members' eyes to the many complexities surrounding a practice that's soon to become legal in Canada.
The 2014 Ebola epidemic pitted a lethal virus against barely-there health systems, and it was always going to be deadly. But an Associated Press investigation has found that a string of avoidable errors badly undermined the work of international aid workers.
Six smart, strong women - mothers of children with complex diseases - are on a mission to make the system better. Not just for them but for you.
If Canada's new government chooses to legalize smoking pot then it should get into the business of controlling its supply and sale to prevent the rise of a "Big Cannabis," addiction specialists say.
Marriages often turn into a patient-caregiver relationship after a stroke, says a Canadian researcher who has looked at how the role changes for couples.
A West Island clinic has changed its policy after a mother complained some of its doctors won’t see children.
A hard-of-hearing graduate who filed a complaint against Memorial University's Ranee Panjabi almost 20 years ago says she is appalled the St. John's school is still permitting the history professor to refuse to wear assistive devices for people with hearing disabilities.
A recent surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a sometimes deadly virus, in Saudi Arabia has ebbed in the run-up to Islam's annual haj pilgrimage, the kingdom's health minister says.
Surgery on the wrong body part or patient, leaving a sponge in a patient, and giving a patient the wrong tissue, egg, sperm or blood product are among a new Canadian list of 15 hospital "never events."
Cancer patients need to be prepared for serious side-effects from chemotherapy, and hospitalization is one that happens much more often in the real world than in drug trials, according to a new study.
