HealthTechnology originally designed to help people with diabetes manage their blood sugar levels has joined the wearables trend.Data likely won't improve health of people who don’t have diabetes or pre-diabetes:…

BlendJet is recalling millions of portable blenders over laceration and fire hazards after receiving dozens of reports of injuries, U.S. regulators said Thursday.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the recall…

At his clinic in a northern suburb of Mumbai, Dr. Pralhad Prabhudesai stared at an X-ray, flipped through a chart and quickly fired a string of questions at the patient standing…

When Trudy Goold received a cost-of-living increase to her Canada Pension Plan disability payments earlier this year, she felt a sense of relief. But it didn't last long. The increase of…

Gert-Jan Oskam could no longer walk after a cycling accident 12 years ago in China.He suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury, so while he had some sensation in his lower body,…

Manitoba's health minister and chief provincial public health officer made a plea to health-care workers to consider picking up shifts over the holidays, with intensive care units already stretched and an…

Canada's first-ever South Asian physician died at 92 in New Westminster, B.C., last Sunday.Dr. Gurdev Singh Gill made history in 1958 when he became the first Indo-Canadian physician, according to the B.C. government.Gill…

Testing of the mysterious respiratory illness affecting dogs across the United States has not yet revealed any new pathogens or any common cause for the wave of infections that have…

This First Person column is written by Glenn Deir, a retired journalist who lives in St. John's. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.I was…

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting another death from a salmonella outbreak involving cantaloupes, bringing the total to seven.The agency says there have so far been 164 lab-confirmed…

A Winnipeg man who was misdiagnosed with a fatal disease by two different doctors says anybody believed to have a life-threatening condition should be sent to a specialist in the field…

This is Part 1 of an in-depth look at changes to a leading child and youth mental health clinic in Hamilton, and the impact they've had on families and mental…

On Jan. 18, 1998, Kent Dooley sat across from a brilliant pediatric pathologist with a devoted following at Halifax's IWK Grace children's and maternity hospital and told him he was…

Warning: This story contains graphic images of an injury.A passenger who landed at Vancouver International Airport says he almost lost his foot to a septic injury after he was left…

As a young Black person, the more mental health help you need, the harder a time you seem to have getting it.At least, that's what Mary, a mental health clinician,…

At one point, Elaine Dawe's sense of loneliness enveloped her life."I was sad all the time. I was lonely. I didn't want to get dressed. I went for a week…

After Dr. Deena Hinshaw was briefly hired and quickly removed from a position with an Indigenous health team at Alberta Health Services earlier this year, more than 100 physicians signed…

A newly published peer-reviewed study found that mistreatment of medical residents in the Maritimes remains common and underreported.From October to November 2021, all 645 medical residents associated with Dalhousie University were invited…