Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work as he seeks to become the leader of the nation’s top health agency under President Donald Trump, according to government ethics documents released Wednesday.

When Monica Bull gave birth to a baby girl, she immediately sensed something was wrong.

British Columbia’s attorney general says the Supreme Court of Canada has certified the province’s class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors.

A Kitchener, Ont. woman’s hunt for barrier-free housing in Waterloo Region has hit a wall.

Less than a week after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued a national recall for several brands of shell eggs over potential salmonella contamination, the agency is ramping up its public awareness efforts.

After a baby died minutes after what his parents thought was a minor operation, and disciplinary charges against a dentist have been laid.

A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are 'devastated' by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency.

While in excruciating abdominal pain, Austin Dyer was shocked to learn he couldn’t get a CT scan on weekends in Lloydminster last fall.

A prominent trans activist says she’ll be avoiding travel to the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender expression to male or female.

Customs officials in France have warned people not to consume so-called 'aphrodisiac honey' - illegally imported honey mixed with medicines used to treat erectile dysfunction.

U.S. President Donald Trump used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

Before Allan Dugas moved into long-term care, he feared he’d be forced to share a bedroom in an impersonal, institutional building, where a regimented schedule would dictate when he ate and what time a staff member would “barge in” to get him out of bed early every morning.

A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said nearly 1,600 people may have been infected with salmonella linked to the recall of mini pastries.

The union representing almost 6,000 ambulance paramedics and dispatchers in British Columbia is sounding an alarm on staffing levels “reaching critical” in the province.