Plastic serves as a building block for our food packaging, water pipes, rubber tires and synthetic fabrics. But plastic also litters waterways, soil and air so humans and other animals …
Inuit leaders are concerned with the federal Liberal budget’s lack of new cash specifically earmarked for eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit regions by 2030. Advocates say the spending plan was a …
An organization that represents doctors in Ontario is expressing concern about what it says is a declining number of medical school students choosing family medicine. Dr. Andrew Park, president of …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to …
When doctors told Karen Ganong she needed a double lung transplant she thought they had the wrong person. What started as a cough in April last year, resulted in several …
In the dozen years she’s worked with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, executive director Brittany Graham has lost count of the people she’s seen succumb to toxic, illicit …
The U.S. Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has donated advanced laboratory equipment and supplies to Nigeria to assist with the country’s efforts to detect disease threats and provide rapid responses and outbreak …
Ten people in Kingston, Ont., were treated for chemical eye exposure and needed to have their eyes flushed after what two patients described as a foam party gone wrong. Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s Emergency Department …
B.C.’s health minister has announced a spring COVID-19 booster campaign, with shots recommended for seniors, Indigenous people over 55 and long-term care home residents in particular. Invitations to book a …
Health authorities in Japan are attempting to play down reports in foreign media of a sharp uptick in the number of “flesh eating” streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome (STSS) cases, although a …