The prospect of Americans raiding Canadian pharmacies for cheaper prescription drugs is raising the spectre of drug shortages north of the border.
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The prospect of Americans raiding Canadian pharmacies for cheaper prescription drugs is raising the spectre of drug shortages north of the border.
The college's board voted earlier this month to order the review of spinal manipulative therapy for children under the age of 10, according to a public notice.
Although fewer Canadians over 50 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, cases among younger adults are increasing.
Ontario must increase funding and staffing at the province’s nursing homes to help prevent future health-care serial killers from harming the most vulnerable, the final report into former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s crimes recommends.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump says it will set up a system to allow Americans to legally import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada, weakening a longstanding ban that had stood as a top priority for the politically powerful pharmaceutical industry.
The man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma has died, possibly without ever knowing he had the virus, officials say.
The commission investigating the actions of serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer and how Ontario's long-term care home system failed to detect her eight murders over a decade will present its report Wednesday.
The Abbotsford woman who calls herself "Dr. Lipjob" has been sent to jail after defying a court order to stop injecting Botox and dermal fillers.
The United Conservative government will hold forums on issues with the Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) program outlined in a report released Tuesday which the NDP says is a way to delay coming up with solutions.
Meet Mike Turner, also known as Ironman. Not even a kidney stone could stop him from coming to work. In 36 years, he's never called in sick.
A second case of Ebola was detected in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, a Congolese health official said.
Menstruation-related symptoms such as painful cramps cause a great deal of lost productivity. Women who push themselves to work despite symptoms may be less productive, a survey suggests.
The Movember Foundation did a survey that found fatherhood can take a toll on a man’s mental health.
Climatologists predict coming years will see heat waves that are more frequent and more intense. What does climate change mean for recreational sports and kids camps of the future?
With cannabis topical creams being legalized across Canada this fall, Samantha Gold was hoping to try using some to alleviate her chronic pain.
E-cigarette maker Juul is opening its first retail store in Canada amid mounting concern about the brand's role in the rise of teen vaping
After months of protests and outrage, the Ontario's Progressive Conservative government will pivot away from its controversial autism funding model and bring in a "needs-based program," Social Services Minister Todd Smith says.
The U.S. presidential hopeful joined 15 Americans living with Type 1 diabetes as they purchased insulin from a Windsor, Ont., pharmacy Sunday for a fraction of the U.S. price.
Campaigns such as Dry January and Sober October promote abstinence from alcohol. The movement is gaining traction with young adults with campaigns such as Mindful Drinking and Sober Curious.
JT Beck, who doesn't identify as a man or a woman and uses the pronouns they/them, says Canadian Blood Services in Surrey refused to accept a blood donation blood in June after staff discovered a new gender on Beck's ID.
Health Canada has clarified its position on much-hyped injury treatments that use platelet-rich plasma (PRP). The agency now says such treatments shouldn't be classified as a drug — a change that could make PRP more available in Canada.
Concern over U.S. legislation that allows Americans to import cheaper medicines from Canada has prompted more than a dozen organizations to urge the federal government to safeguard the Canadian drug supply.
A Health Canada review of transvaginal mesh to treat pelvic organ problems in women concluded it should be restricted in its use. The review followed a complete ban on the surgically implanted mesh by the U.S. FDA.
An emergency department physician in Dartmouth, N.S., has invented a way to safely remove rings from swollen fingers without damaging the heirloom. He's hopeful Ring Rescue will be a common tool in hospitals.
Eser Toprak has had a rare, life-threatening disorder since she was a teenager. But for a decade it went undiagnosed and she felt "invisible" in Nova Scotia's health system. Her journey for answers took her to the other side of the Atlantic.
Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness.
The Ontario-based cannabis company that was caught by Health Canada for growing the drug in illegal greenhouses has fired its CEO and the chair of the board in a major corporate shakeup.
A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion US jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup for their cancer to $86.7 million US.
Health Canada approved an request by Canadian Plasma Resources to increase the number of times a person can donate plasma from once per week to twice, a move an advocacy group questions.
In order to make cannabis edibles less attractive for children, the Quebec government proposed stricter cannabis regulations.
A total of 250 patients across Ontario's rural and urban areas are taking part in a clinical trial testing whether an app can help manage chronic pain.
Marcey Wesley, 8, says it makes her sad she can't play with water balloons this summer, as families on the Ontario First Nation of Attawapiskat have been told to limit their tap-water use. An ongoing water crisis is forcing residents to lug containers to watering stations providing free filtered drinking water.
Doctors are warning that a new mix of street drugs has no antidote for overdose victims.
On the heels of a man going missing from Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and somehow boarding an international flight, the centre's president has announced an external review of its processes around passes and privileges for patients.
Canada has had just 20 cases of the C. auris fungal infection so far, but experts expect that number to rise, fuelling the global race for answers to its spread.
The manufacturer of Biocell breast implants recalled all models of the implant on Wednesday, two months after Health Canada banned them from sale in this country amid concerns over a heightened risk of a rare form of cancer.
Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery of what may have happened to them, a new study says.
The executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia says they're finally seeing benefits of dedicated funding support, but there remain many gaps to fill.
Beyond Meat markets its plant-based burger as a healthier alternative to meat, which is associated with certain health risks. But some experts say the data doesn't exist yet to show that a processed plant-based patty trumps beef.
A Canadian-born researcher is helping to launch the first substantial study of transgender athletes in a bid to better understand how gender reassignment and hormone therapy affects athletic performance.
Researchers mapped out the complete genetic profile of Inuit in the northern Quebec region of Nunavik, and found that the population is genetically different from any present-day population in the world.
The risk is rising that the new strain could threaten sub-Saharan Africa, where most malaria cases and deaths occur.
Why the body’s calorie-burning capacity drops has so far not been explained. There are theories that something puts the brakes on the body’s ability to turn up its fat-burning machinery and a new paper describes one possible system.
Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, has resigned in protest over the presidency's announcement last week that it was stripping his team of control over the response to the Ebola outbreak.
A Syrian refugee whose baby was born with her brain growing outside her skull says her child faces lifelong challenges two years after undergoing risky brain surgery.
Attawapiskat Chief Ignace Gull said he is optimistic about the future of his community following a commitment from the federal government to improve failing water systems in the remote First Nation.
Dozens of parents across the country are raising safety concerns about fraying straps on their Evenflo child car seats, prompting Transport Canada to investigate.
An eighteen-year-old Vancouver student has created a smartphone system that helps detect whether someone might have Alzheimer's disease.
Two brands of ice cream sandwiches have been recalled by a Canadian dairy company over concerns there may be fine metal particles inside them.
Danielle Kane was paralyzed in Toronto's Danforth shooting last July. A year later, the 32-year-old is coping with pain management but draws strength from her partner and a deep-rooted sense of compassion.