A woman who befriended Tamara Lovett and her son Ryan testified on Wednesday that the boy was "a beautiful endurer of abuse" who lived in the "darkest realms of poverty." Lovett is on trial, accused of failing to properly care for her son. He died in 2013 from a strep infection and never saw a doctor.
The hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain a troublesome ingredient is confusing to people with food allergies and needs an overhaul, new report says.
Steven Chapman admits that conducting his own hemodialysis treatment hundreds of kilometres from the nearest hospital is "kind of a dangerous thing", but he prefers that to the alternatives.
For the fifth consecutive year, a Winnipeg hospital has claimed the unsavoury title of having the longest emergency room wait times in Canada, a national health report says. However there are early signs that improvements are on the horizon.
Ontario’s hospitals are too slow in getting their most critically ill patients into both intensive care and the operating room, with roughly one quarter of those surveyed waiting four hours for life-saving surgical procedures, the province’s auditor general found.
Ontario's police leaders and chief coroner are providing an update on the deadly trend of fentanyl-related deaths in the province.
Premier Brad Wall says the Saskatchewan government wants to move towards an organ donation system that would require individuals to opt out of being a donor, going against the recommendation of a recent provincial report.
Calgary's medical examiner testified that seven-year-old Ryan Lovett died from an "overwhelming blood infection" in 2013. His mother, Tamara Lovett, is on trial for failing to provide the necessaries of life and criminal negligence causing death.
Cycling, swimming, doing aerobics and playing racquet sports offer life-saving benefits
Trial believed to be the first in Canada to test an oral preparation that contains both CBD and THC, compounds in marijuana that have been shown in the lab and through anecdotal reports to have anticonvulsant properties in children.
Listeria contamination concerns have Sobeys removing Compliments brand broccoli slaw from store shelves.
At least two Alberta children have died in recent years, after their parents treated them with natural remedies instead of antibiotics. A health law expert weighs in on this worrying "pseudo-science", and whether prosecuting parents is the best way forward.
A man in Labrador City says more mental health resources are needed in western Labrador.
The Winnipeg laboratory worker whose torn suit raised fears he had been exposed to the Ebola virus has been released from quarantine after he displayed no symptoms, a government official said on Monday.
A local police officer and former Canadian soldier is speaking out about the anti-malaria drug mefloquine. He took the drug while deployed to Somalia in 1992 and says it has caused him decades of psychological problems.
A Calgary boy who died in 2013 lived in "squalor" in a "dark and dirty apartment" with his mother, who is accused of failing to provide the necessaries of life after treating his meningitis and strep infection with dandelion tea and oil of oregano.
Thousands of heart surgery patients from across Atlantic Canada are being warned they may have been exposed to a bacteria that causes a rare infection while undergoing procedures in Halifax.
Doctors should assess and discuss the cardiorespiratory fitness of adults during routine visits, the American Heart Association advises.
Would you take a blood test that accurately predicts your chance of dying within five years?
Canada's health minister has "significant concerns" with Saskatchewan's buy one, get one policy for diagnostic scans such as MRIs.
A blind boy from Selkirk, Man. is getting a new outlook on life thanks to a pair of special e-glasses.
Perhaps there's a black belt in your child's future. But for safety's sake, kids should only engage in noncontact forms of martial arts, a new American Academy of Pediatrics report says.
Experts say the trial of a woman who turned to holistic medicine before the death of her seven-year-old son is likely to reignite a debate over the use of natural and alternative treatments.
A B.C. drug producer known as Beeker opens up about the unstoppable force of fentanyl, and how underground chemists try to stay one step ahead of the police.
A Toronto research lap has tested easily available winter boots for walking on ice and wet ice. Most of them failed to keep the testers standing.
Research shows lawyers and law students are at risk for mental health and addiction issues. But a general stigma and suck-it-up mentality often prevents them from seeking help.
Second Opinion is a vital dose of the week's news in health and medicine, from reporter Kelly Crowe and CBC Health.
In his state of the league address Friday in Toronto, CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge refused to admit a link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease of the brain.
How valid is a wait-time survey if most doctors ignore it? There are serious flaws in the methodology behind the Fraser Institute's annual report on wait times. And some critics say the real motivation is to undermine Canada's public health care system.
Many patients who have their appendix removed can safely go home from the hospital the same day, a U.S. study suggests.
Ramandeep Athwal is ready to stage a protest at the offices of the Alberta Dental Association and College and says the public must join him if he is ever to learn what happened to his four-year-old child.
A B.C. man who is challenging the province's laws on the preservation of the body after death has signed a groundbreaking cryonic contract. Keegan Macintosh is believed to be the first person to sign a deal with a Canadian provider to keep his body in a state of permanent suspension.
The fear of deadly fentanyl doesn't stop addicts at pop-up injection sites, where they know they can get help if they OD.
Marijuana legalization is looming in Canada, but what’s in today’s weed — and what isn't — may surprise you.
Talks between the provinces and the federal government on a new health accord have "gone silent," according to Newfoundland's health minister, casting doubt there will be a signed agreement by year's end.
In the fight against diabetes and obesity, one important factor may have been overlooked: our molecular clock.
A new online tool finds that between 2006 and 2014, 45 per cent of studies registered on the world's leading clinical trials database are missing results — with nine Canadian universities and research hospitals among the top 100 worst offenders.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid — a painkiller similar to morphine. But its recreational use is becoming a public health crisis and increasing problem for law enforcement across the country.
Health Canada has named the two people who will lead a review team looking into the cases of four men switched at birth at Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975.
The mom of an eight-year-old boy who died after a pharmacy switched his sleep medication for a toxic dose of another drug says she is encouraged by what she heard in a face-to-face meeting with Ontario's Health Minister this week.
By 14 days, 14 per cent of babies born vaginally and 24 per cent of infants delivered via cesarean section surgeries didn't return to their birth weight, U.S. researchers find.
A new report by the Canadian Forces shows that soldiers who have been deployed overseas are at a higher risk of taking their own lives, and the risk for those serving in the army is much greater that it is for those serving in the navy or air force.
The image of the lazy pot-smoker remains one of the most prevailing stigmas about medical cannabis users.
Recreational marijuana sales need to be restricted to protect minors, the Canadian Paediatric Society says in a new position statement, released as federal government moves forward with plans to legalize the cannabis industry.
Breaking a sweat? Researchers are creating a skin patch that can test those droplets while people exercise and beam results to their smartphones, possibly a new way to track health and fitness.
An experimental treatment for Alzheimer's failed again in a widely anticipated study, disappointing many who had hoped drugmaker Eli Lilly had finally found a way to slow the progression of the mind-robbing disease.
A new public health campaign is taking aim at antibiotic use in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Four patients at the Mgr. Henri-Cormier Lodge in Moncton speak to reporter and fellow cancer patient Catherine Harrop about their time at the lodge, and their cancer diagnoses.
A rare condition known as thunderstorm asthma kills four people and sends hundreds to hospitals in Australia's second-largest city.
Proposed legislation would create a new approach to regulating vaping products.
