Health

Some students are heading back to classes in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., just over two weeks after an 18-year-old shooter killed eight people, including six at the local secondary school, before turning the gun on herself.

Black women are three to four times more likely to die during or as a result of childbirth in the United States and the U.K., and although Canadians could assume similar statistics for Black women in our...

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment. The B.C. man says he'd started that day last...

Editor's note: The subject matter discussed in the following article may be disturbing to some readers. For decades, thousands of Indigenous women and other marginalized people in Canada have been...

OTTAWA — Cervical cancer is both the fastest-growing type of cancer in Canada and one that is almost completely preventable — and advocates are gathering in Ottawa on Wednesday to call on the federal...

Health Canada has issued a recall of approximately 20,000 power bank units due to a possible fire hazard. The federal agency says five models of the LOGiiX Piston Power 5000 Mag Power Banks are being...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information says pneumonia hospitalizations rose by almost one-third across Canada last year. The data released Thursday shows kids between five and 17 years old were...

Alberta’s evolving health‑care system is seeing another shift with the launch of a new online tool the province says will make it easier for residents to access assisted‑living supports. Premier...

The World’s Longest Hockey Game near Edmonton came to an end Monday with over a million dollars raised for cancer patients.  Since Feb. 5, 40 players have been on the ice shooting and saving...