CALGARY – Alberta’s provincial health agency says “fentanyl antidote” kits have saved at least four lives since they hit the streets of Calgary earlier this summer....
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) is targeting to increase the government’s human resources for health in 2016 to further improve the delivery of health...
REGINA – A new medical robot in Saskatchewan is connecting doctors with patients who would otherwise have to travel long distances for appointments. The robot, called...
VANCOUVER – Three types of Smirnoff Ice coolers have been recalled in British Columbia following a Canada-wide warning about possible glass contamination. Smirnoff’s supplier Diageo Canada...
OKOTOKS, Alta. – A former Calgary-area dentist who paid for back surgery in Montana rather than wait to have it done in Alberta has lost his...
OTTAWA – A cucumber recall in Canada triggered by a suspected salmonella outbreak in the United States is being expanded. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says...
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Hydroelectric projects will put more methylmercury pollution into northern ecosystems than climate change, suggests a new Harvard University study. Methylmercury, a neurotoxin...
CHICAGO – Infants are more likely to catch whooping cough from their siblings than their moms, says a study with implications for how to protect them....
WASHINGTON — One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to...
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday a total of 11,740,245 public elementary school pupils across the nation have been covered by the...