VANCOUVER—Parents and doctors questioning teens about whether they smoke should also be asking if they’re using e-cigarettes, which could be a gateway to nicotine addiction later...
WASHINGTON—Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs....
MANILA, Philippiness—The U.N. Population Fund says the Philippines is the only country in the Asia Pacific region where the rate of teen pregnancies rose over 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...
OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is insisting that medical assistance in dying should only be available to Canadians near death, showing no inclination to accept a Senate amendment...
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,...
SHERWOOD PARK, Alta.—A researcher has started tracking the health of firefighters helping battle the massive wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta. Nicola Cherry, an occupational epidemiologist at...
SEOUL—The fifth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a 39-year-old man who recently came back from a business trip to...
TORONTO—Ontario’s Health Minister has pledged to increase access to stem cell transplants for cancer patients. Eric Hoskins said in a news release that “there are additional...
CONAKRY, Guinea—Two bodies tested positive for Ebola in Guinea, the government said Thursday, months after the outbreak was declared over in the West African country and...