There are moments when content on a smartphone can make you oblivious to your surrounding and at imminent risk. It's called "distracted walking" and the outlaw it has begun in Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto. Heads up!
A male contraceptive needle is almost as effective as the female birth control pill - but side effects could be a deal breaker.
Squabbling by provinces in the run-up to a new health accord points to the need for an agency that would share regional health-care innovations with the rest of the country, says an editorial in Canada's premier medical journal.
Bedtime use of cellphones or tablets by children — even just having access to them — is consistently linked to excessive daytime sleepiness and poor sleep, researchers say.
Reducing indoor allergens and pollutants can help control children's asthma, reducing their need for medication, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A Calgary woman is fighting to be recognized as a thalidomide survivor after struggling to provide medical records required by the federal government to qualify for a compensation package announced last year.
Indigenous people in northern Manitoba say a shortage of dialysis machines is putting patients at risk — and some have already died.
Josh Pelland was what's lovingly known in the climbing community as a dirtbag. Then, a "small little hurdle" altered his life. Now, he's getting to walk again, with the help of a $100,000 exoskeleton.
Researchers are working on an exquisitely sensitive prosthetic system that mimics the sense of touch of a real hand
A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use.
Low-income Berkeley neighbourhoods slashed sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by more than one-fifth after first soda tax enacted in the U.S.
Weeks after recalling meal replacement bars that made some customers severely stomach sick, Soylent has now halted production of its powder drink mix over similar reports.
The Windsor Essex County Health Unit reports three Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae found in the area tested negative for the Zika virus.
Renowned sports doctor Anthony Galea, who was convicted in the U.S. for importing unapproved and mislabeled drugs in 2011, was found guilty in Canada on Monday of professional misconduct.
Individuals in highly stressful jobs with little control tend to die at a younger age than workers who have more control in their jobs, researchers find.
The suspected murders of eight elderly patients in two Ontario nursing homes shouldn't automatically prompt coroners to launch more investigations into deaths in such facilities, says a member of the province's geriatric and long-term care review committee.
Canadian caregivers and health experts are closely watching new U.S. guidelines on how much screen time children should have.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a Buffalo cancer hospital permission to proceed with a historic clinical trial of a lung cancer treatment in collaboration with a Cuban state biotech firm. The venture comes as the Obama administration loosens the Cuban trade embargo.
Eyes are more relaxed when people are outside and that relaxed state may help lower the risk of children developing nearsightedness, a new study from the University of Waterloo's School of Optometry and Vision Science and the CNIB has found.
Environment Minister Perry Trimper says the Newfoundland and Labrador government will do what's necessary to make Muskrat Falls right.
Patients can easily spread bacteria that's difficult to control to their nurses' clothing, according to a new study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mother of a hearing-impaired toddler is pleading with the federal government to give her family benefits under the disability tax credit.
A growing number of Canadian parents have had their kids undergo baseline testing for concussions prior to the start of the season for contact sports like hockey, lacrosse or rugby. But the debate over the procedure's usefulness rages on.
Kids at East Wiltshire school are now without a slushie machine, just a week after it arrived.
A doctor and researcher from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control says this year's dominant H3N2 flu strain tends to lead to more deaths and hospitalization.
Scientists at the University of Calgary have developed a neuro chip that could one day be used in the treatment of epilepsy and other neurological diseases.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was rushed to hospital after ingesting nearly half a bottle of extra-strength acetaminophen tablets wants tighter restrictions on who can buy the drug.
When Canadian mothers head to the park with their kids they will look different than their counterparts a few decades ago.
Inuit people in Labrador say a hydroelectric project could poison their food if the government doesn't take steps to reduce the production of a deadly neurotoxin — and they've got science on their side.
Permanent mental health resources are still absent from Attawapiskat, Ont., six months after the remote James Bay reserve's chief and council declared a state of emergency following a surge of suicide attempts, according to the North East Local Health Integration Network.
Researchers have analyzed HIV in blood samples from the late 1970s to reconstruct its spread throughout North America in unprecedented detail.
Nunavut is giving out more than 800 baby boxes to parents of newborns in an attempt to reduce the territory's high rate of infant mortality.
Decades of labelling marijuana sellers as "pushers" has made cannabis a risk to reputations. But a plea by Loblaws-owned Shoppers to get into pot, shows prudish governments are playing catch-up with business.
The stethoscope celebrates its 200th birthday this year. A Parisian doctor invented the medical device in 1816 in order to treat to a patient with heart disease. But many now believe with modern technology in hospitals, the stethoscope is becoming obsolete.
A chronology of artificial trans fats in Canada and around the world
Last Friday's massive cyberattacks should serve as a "wake-up call" to alert the public that internet-connected devices designed to make our lives more convenient are also making us unsafe, security analysts warn.
Bioventus Global, the company that manufactures EXOGEN, a low-intensity ultrasound machine widely used to treat fractured limbs, withdrew financial support for the research in 2012 after results showed their product did not accelerate healing.
Shocking accusations that a nurse murdered eight elderly patients in nursing homes in southwestern Ontario are raising questions about how nurses are regulated in the province.
The mayor of Red Deer is adding her voice to growing calls on the province to provide life-saving treatment for heart attack patients in central Alberta. That's after a report showed that cardiac death rates are up to 70 per cent higher in central Alberta than they are in Calgary or Edmonton.
Ontario's Ministry of Labour is investigating after a nurse was badly beaten by a patient at Toronto's Centre for Mental Health and Addiction on the weekend.
When Dan Duma returned home for his final days, the publicly funded healthcare he grew up with was suddenly gone, and all he did was leave Ontario.
Hospitals are generally safe but harmful events can happen and many are preventable
Parents of autistic children who were guided by therapists in how to communicate better with their children and practised the approach daily saw a reduction in the severity of autism symptoms, say U.K. researchers.
California could legalize recreational marijuana in this year's election, and even John Roselius, the star of a famous 1987 anti-drug PSA, is saying "yes" to Proposition 64.
'This isn't something that's going to be announced any time soon unfortunately,' Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says, as anger mounts that officials did not address concerns about heart attack mortality rates in central Alberta sooner.
Winnipeg police are set to release more details about arrests in connection with the rescue of an infant who may have come into contact with fentanyl last week.
Canada's largest pharmacy chain has formally applied to be a distributor of medical marijuana.
Sudbury's hospital is celebrating the success of an extraordinary operation that helped keep a city man alive.
A clinic on wheels is rolling throughout northern Ontario to help with a critical issue affecting indigenous communities.
Many injuries and deaths associated with medical devices uncovered at 17 hospitals should have been reported and were not, U.S. regulator says.
A Woodstock, Ont. nurse is responsible for eight deaths of elderly patients in southwestern Ontario, Ontario Provincial Police allege.
More young transgender people are coming out, a sign that societal attitudes are becoming more welcoming when it comes to gender issues, according to an Alberta psychiatrist.
Trans fats are fading from the Canadian food supply, but they’re still slow to disappear from supermarket shelves in Nova Scotia.
