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Substantial progress has been made in fighting HIV/AIDS globally and more people with the disease are living longer thanks to advances in treatment, but a new study from The Lancet HIV medical journal suggests the world is still far from ending HIV as a public health threat, as evidenced by rising infection rates in countries like Canada.

Donald Trump's latest tariff threat is focusing attention on the threat posed by fentanyl and its precursors. But stifling the drug trade by trying to control the trade in precursors is a frustrating and not very effective approach that has failed to produce the desired results in the past.

Hundreds of eligible patients will need to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to access a cutting-edge treatment after talks between public drug plans and a pharmaceutical company ended without an agreement.

Beverly Tupper, from the remote northern Alberta community of Fitzgerald, was sent to Edmonton on a medevac flight. The flight was from Fort Smith, N.W.T., and Alberta doesn't cover medical transports from outside the province.

It’s an idea that thrills cancer researchers: a blood test that has the potential to screen for a sweeping number of cancers before symptoms appear. More than 250,000 Galleri tests have been sold in the U.S., but data on its accuracy is mixed

Fire retardants — including toxic, regulated compounds — were found in roughly 85 per cent of products analyzed by researchers of a recently published study. The items tested include kitchen utensils, food trays and even children's toys.

Canadian officials say SunFed Produce brand whole, fresh, American cucumbers have been recalled due to potential salmonella contamination. The cucumbers were sold in several Canadian provinces in October and November.

Canada's top court has ruled that British Columbia can bring forward a class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers for harms caused by opioids on behalf of other provinces, territories and the federal government.

People in La Ronge are raising concerns over access to fresh healthy food after doctors diagnosed 27 cases of scurvy over the past year.

More than three million Ontarians could be at risk of losing their family doctor to retirement with thousands of family physicians over the age of 60, the provincial Liberals say.

Canadian officials say an additional organic carrot product is under recall due to possible E. coli O121 contamination. 

Two families united by tragedy when a dying man was misidentified at Ottawa's Montfort Hospital say they've yet to receive a formal apology, nor has the hospital acknowledged their recommendations for improving its policies.

British lawmakers gave approval to an assisted dying bill that many say could turn out like Canada's medical assistance in dying program, for better or for worse.

Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of 300 patients across seven countries shows that used pacemakers, when properly sterilised and implanted, work just as well as new ones, and pose no greater risk of infection.

Canada's health regulator has approved Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy to reduce the risk of nonfatal heart attack or myocardial infarction in some adults

A Canadian non-profit that helps women obtain the abortion pill in countries with restrictions says it saw a fourfold increase in U.S. requests after the presidential election.

More than a quarter of New Brunswick kindergarten students did not meet the immunization requirements to enter public school in 2023-24, the latest figures from the Department of Health show.

The inquest for six inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre heard Tuesday that five of the men died overnight, one of several commonalities noted in testimony by a corrections consultant. Photos released at the hearing also provide an emotional look at the six lives that were lost between 2017 and 2021.

As the 988 national suicide prevention helpline marks its one-year anniversary, the three-digit helpline is making a difference in helping to prevent suicides, experts say.

A Thunder Bay woman says her ex-partner was charged after allegedly trying to strangle her on three occasions, but the court case was stayed due to a lack of evidence. Now, she's urging Ontario to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic, as several other provinces have. As an Ontario committee studies the bill, advocates say the problem is getting worse as a backlog of criminal court cases grows.