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We ignored the science of airborne transmission for a century. Carl Zimmer tells us why.

Some clinics charge thousands a year for primary care and out-of-pocket fees while an estimated 6.5 million Canadian adults don't have a regular health-care provider like a family doctor or nurse prac...

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves la...

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, its effects live on and continue to have an impact on the health of Canadians. Here's a look back at some of them, including the effectiveness of e...

Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.

Acute myocardial infarction can be triggered by acute respiratory infections. Previous studies have suggested an association between influenza and acute myocardial infarction, but those studies use...

A report released in January showed that between 2022 and 2024, the province’s known homeless population shot up by 25 per cent to 81,515 people.

A former Alberta Health Services CEO has made stunning allegations of government interference on behalf of private companies in health care deals

The Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force report is littered with anti-science talking points, many already debunked by fact-checkers

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks.

Boutique clinics are not the future of health care. They are a step backward and are making primary care access worse.

A new study establishes that soda consumption is doing ever more damage to health — with rising rates of diabetes in regions where soda-drinking is on the rise, like sub-Saharan Africa.

A report in the Times of London focusing on an Ontario man's website has prompted a Peel Regional Police investigation. The report linked the defunct site's sale of a toxic substance to multiple suicides overseas. Toxicology experts warn of a troubling increase in suicides involving sodium nitrite.