Tag Archives: health

MONTREAL - These days, Mylene Gamache-Tremblay spends her evenings and weekends taking orders for solar eclipse glasses, and packing and shipping them around the eastern part of the country. The Montr...

A troubling rise in measles cases has a Toronto doctor remembering a little girl who became blind, noncommunicative and incontinent after contracting the virus. Dr. Barry Goldlist was a medical studen...

Public health officials are encouraging parents to ensure their children get routine childhood vaccines as measles continues to spread around the world. Here are some facts about one of the most conta...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The man accused of stabbing three people at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown had a history of "sudden" violence but a report says he showed no signs of deteriorating mental health...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican legislators in Kansas are close to banning gender-affirming care for minors over the Democratic governor's expected veto after winning over previously skeptical GOP coll...

VICTORIA - British Columbia introduced proposed legislation Thursday that would allow it to sue for health-related costs over damages by companies like social-media giants and energy drink manufacture...

Health Canada and Best Buy are recalling five types of Insignia-brand air fryers because they are a potential fire or burn hazard. There have been six reports in Canada of the air fryer's handles melt...

WINNIPEG - The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear an appeal by several churches that fought Manitoba's COVID-19 restrictions. Lawyers for the churches argued public health orders in 2020 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday, marking what her office said was the first time a president or vice president has toured a facility...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says it will cull 25 deer in the Kootenay region to test for chronic wasting disease. The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says two deer in the region te...