Health & Wellness News

A person in Washington state has died from complications of the bird flu, the first such U.S. death in a year.

The Ontario Medical Association says problems with accessing specialist care have led to Ontarians turning to hospital emergency departments instead.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are among those who want to bring healthier food to the places kids go for physical activity.

Star Trek and X-Men actor Patrick Stewart died at his home in Los Angeles after a 'brief and poignant journey' with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, according to a statement. Alzheimer's disease is well known as a progressive brain disease that has no cure, but Lewy body dementia is the second-most common form of dementia. Health reporter Tashauna Reid explains how it affects the body.

This fall, unlike last year, the province is allowing pharmacists to give out COVID-19 shots. But some pharmacists say they are not getting full shipments of the doses they have ordered.

An innovative wound and burn treatment initially funded by Canada's Department of National Defence is now being delivered by drone to help wounded soldiers and civilians in war-torn Ukraine.

Deaths linked to wildfire smoke in Canada have exploded by 275 per cent since the early 2000s according to a major global report that says the change is largely due to human-caused climate change.

The fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries.

GLP-1s were designed and tested for long-term use, to combat chronic health conditions like diabetes and obesity. But what happens when you take these blockbuster weight loss drugs for a short stint? With more patients hopping on and off GLP-1s, scientists are trying to find out what that actually does to your body.

Legislation tabled on Tuesday also sets criteria for people to make what's known as an "advance request" for medically assisted death, before losing the capacity to consent due to their health condition.

Officials on opposite sides of the African continent are trying to determine how a woman diagnosed with Ebola in Nigeria's capital last week contracted the deadly virus without having visited the Democratic Republic of Congo — the epicentre of one of the worst human outbreaks of the virus in history.

Ontario has connected more than 511,000 people to family physicians since it launched its primary health care plan last year, the province’s health minister announced Monday.

A Manitoba man living with a rare genetic condition says he's now considering medically assisted dying, after being denied out-of-province coverage to get a procedure he and experts say he can't get here.

Vancouver's James Howard is paying $90,000 a month for a new pancreatic cancer treatment that may add a few more months to his life. But, he's far from the only Canadian who is faced with having to find the means to access new cancer medicines at high costs and it's an issue that front-line oncologists across the country say is pushing public health care past a breaking point.

Over the last decade, egg freezing has become significantly more popular. According to data from the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS), there were 2,663 retrieval cycles for the purpose of freezing, or banking, eggs reported in 2025. Compare that number to 2013, when there were only 217 such procedures logged.

From life-altering tragedies to everyday health risks, P.E.I. is taking direct aim at mitigating the toll of drinking. Advocates, are hoping a new provincial alcohol strategy will push Islanders to re-evaluate their relationship with alcohol, while reducing costs that far outweigh the revenue alcohol brings in.