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The relationship between chickenpox and shingles can be a bit confusing, but it’s important to understand it. Our family medicine physician explains the connection, as well as the importance of gettin...

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

It will mark a big shift in how people with opioid use disorder access potent pharmaceutical opioids from a safe source.

Creating barriers to medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is discrimination

When Canada’s Health Ministers meet this October, the headline issues will take up most of the oxygen. Tariffs and wait times are driving the news cycle, and a number of...

Cycling Without Age works to enrich the lives of long-term care home residents across Canada

It takes doing things conservatives and progressives both dislike.

A B.C. Supreme Court ruling overreaches by striking down the federal law of possession for the purpose of trafficking

Series highlighted volunteers across Canada providing compassion and assistance to patients in the health care system

Newsrooms in Canada have much to learn about countering Russia’s disinformation from their counterparts in Ukraine

Le journaliste et animateur Jean-Luc Mongrain est mort dimanche à l’âge de 75 ans à la suite de complications liées à un cancer.

Experts are starting to question whether identifying ductal carcinoma in situ as cancer leads to unnecessary interventions such as radiation and surgery.

In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.

For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.

Editorial: Parity of esteem with physical healthcare remains a distant prospect. Ministers must do more to tackle rising distress

While endometriosis affects one in 10 women, Canada’s health care system is doing a “poor” job in providing them care and many women are seeking treatment outside the country.

Unmanaged menopause symptoms costs the Canadian economy $3.5 billion a year — and a recurring supply crisis is making a bad problem worse.

In Ottawa, kids in daycare are just down the hall from veterans in long-term care

As Canada marks National Shingles Awareness Week, the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) is releasing a new report warning that shingles remains a largely overlooked yet preventable health risk for ol...

Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination

Since the days of Dr. Alzheimer himself, there has been a dream that severe senility might have an explanation — and a cure. The search for both has never been more urgent.

Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. Yet that’s enough to be driving a boom in shingles jabs

L'émission Tout terrain nous fait découvrir une initiative de soutien destinée à ceux qui ont frôlé la mort.

From her front-line work with Médecins Sans Frontières, Joanne Liu saw firsthand how a security-obsessed agenda can erode our common humanity

From smaller portions and recipe tweaks to earlier dinner times, people taking GLP-1s are adapting traditional holiday meals to their new realities

The government’s intention to bar those requests sends a message to mentally ill Canadians that they don’t have autonomy over their own death while every other grievously ill person does

MacDonald worked "right at the centre of all those important moments" in Quebec and Canadian politics.

Some change in our lifestyles and environments over a generation has caused this increased risk. What, exactly, is a mystery, says chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Devi Sri...

Health officials say flu season has arrived early this year, but how worried should Canadians be? As we head into Thanksgiving weekend, the CBC looks at where the flu is hitting hardest and how you ca...

Company responded to wrongful-dismissal lawsuit filed by Michael Green alleging he was scapegoated for failure of PrescribeIT program

Cochrane review of nearly 100 medical studies finds corporate offerings have a ‘harmful effect on prescribing appropriateness’

Coverage rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic and have not rebounded

Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them

Walter Willett’s research has changed the way Americans eat, revealing how diet and other lifestyle choices can shape your risk of chronic illnesses.

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

The Poison Seller, which premieres on CBC TV Wednesday, outlines the tragic lost opportunities to have stopped Law

Ça fait longtemps qu'on attend longtemps dans les urgences du Québec, même plus que 50 ans en réalité, malgré tous les efforts des ministres successifs de la Santé.