CHICAGO – Parental warning: Don’t lose sleep over new guidelines on how much shut-eye your kids should be getting. The recommendations range from up to 16...
VANCOUVER—Experts are questioning widely circulated Health Canada claims that the drug W-18 is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, or that the new arrival to the...
TORONTO—More than 10 years ago, Jenn Fraser looked into her future and saw an image of herself in a wheelchair, the likely result of rapidly progressing...
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday that more people are now beginning to have better positive understanding about the importance of voluntary...
BAGUIO CITY – Nephrologist Virginia B. Mangati has strongly discouraged the use of food supplements, saying that the “Alternative medicine lacks research and therefore not recommended”....
QUEBEC—A report by Quebec’s health and welfare commissioner says the province has the worst emergency room wait times in the western world. The report, released Thursday,...
You probably know someone who lives in a nursing home, or someone who has a family member who is no longer able to care for himself...
VANCOUVER – Canada’s provincial governments have to spend much more on health care over the next 20 years, triggering higher taxes, larger deficits, and reduced spending...
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday it has achieved its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing tuberculosis (TB) prevalence and mortality...
VICTORIA—A researcher at the University of Victoria has received funding aimed at developing technology to help identify the Zika virus. Grand Challenges Canada, a federally funded...