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A new framework to develop guidelines around substance use in schools recommends beginning prevention and education efforts efforts as early as kindergarten.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are home to some of the highest rates of new HIV infections in Canada, and the numbers show Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected.

Police in Canada keep warning parents about the dangers of gaming and messaging platforms like Discord and Roblox. But neither will be covered by the government’s proposed Safe Social Media Act. Even supporters of the legislation say it's an alarming omission.

A Laurentian University sports psychologist took to long-distance running to help recover from long COVID.

The Afro Canadian Caribbean Association (ACCA) of Hamilton held a conference this week focused on brain health, dementia awareness and how to take steps to care for yourself and family members. "Families don't get the support they need because they're almost embarrassed to talk about what's happening at home," says Evelyn Myrie, president of ACCA.

When never-seen-before temperatures struck B.C. in June 2021, people did everything they could to stay cool, stuffing frozen water bottles under their armpits and floating in lakes. But paramedics were run off their feet, a village burned to the ground and more than 600 people died.

The number of Albertans visiting emergency rooms and urgent care centres due to electric scooter incidents is growing steadily, with children’s hospitals seeing the sharpest increases.

A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that limited emergency room capacity, difficulties in accessing standard care and the country's aging population are to blame for patients spending more than 48 hours waiting in ERs.

Health Canada has approved an injection medication to treat severe obstructive sleep apnea in adults with obesity.

Registered dietitian Leah Cahill says people come to her all the time asking about nutrition information they've seen on social media. She is one of the authors of a new study looking at the quality of that influencer advice.

Connecting health data across the country will help researchers conduct clinical trials, test AI health tools and drive innovation in treatment and diagnosis, says federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon. But the initiative will also have to balance privacy considerations.

After more than a decade without fluoridated water in Saint John, the dental community is seeing a surge in tooth decay among young people.

A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo's Ministry of Health said Sunday. At least 365 patients are in hospitals or in isolation, it said.

Canadian health officials called a 23-per-cent drop in opioid toxicity deaths last year "real progress," which was mirrored by two out of the three provinces that account for most of those deaths. But the third province, Alberta, saw just a small decline, while opioid-related EMS responses jumped.

The debate over whether Canadians with mental illness should have access to a medically assisted death ramped up this past week raising questions around why it's so heavily scrutinized and who is most impacted.

More than half of Nunavik's communities are struggling with a tuberculosis outbreak. The total number of cases in the region has grown annually for the past five years.

An estimated 20,000 Alberta kids are on a waitlist for the Family Support for Children with Disabilities program. In the meantime, parents are losing their jobs or are unable to find work because children are being banned from daycare. They are taking on debt to fund therapy. They report stress to the point of burnout.

Ev Bishop couldn't help but feel offended when people would notice her limping or struggling to move with her bad knee. But she couldn't accept that she had a disability, or might need a cane, until a visit from friends opened her eyes to how she was limiting herself.

The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed unsafe.

Data obtained by CBC News reveals multiple people were left in life-threatening condition, hospitalized or requiring other medical intervention after donating plasma over the past decade.

In order to be eligible for dual practice, doctors must do a minimum number of hours in the public system first. The province says those hour requirements along with other safeguards will protect the public system.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known outbreak at this stage, with up to 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy for autism and various disabilities.

A special parliamentary committee is recommending that the federal government "indefinitely exclude" people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from applying for medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Scientists have solved a mystery that puzzled them for decades: Why were so many dead children buried by hunter-gatherers in Russia 5,500 years ago? It turns out they were killed by the earliest known outbreak of the plague, revealing new insights about the disease.

Manitoba's ongoing hepatitis A outbreak, which has claimed the lives of four people, has prompted a travel alert by the national public health agency of the United States.

A judge has dismissed a last-ditch legal effort to temporarily halt the closures of supervised consumption sites in Calgary and Lethbridge, citing a similar effort to stall another shuttered site.

Infectious disease experts hope the Alberta government will fully adopt federal COVID-19 vaccine guidance as it plans its immunization rollout for later this year.

Memorial University’s Labrador Campus hosted a historic convocation and recognized the decades of contribution made by Labrador’s first Innu nurse.

Opioid overdose deaths across Canada dropped by nearly a quarter last year compared to 2024, with health officials hailing the data as a sign that the federal government's drug policy is working.

Starting next month, Ontarians who are 45 years old will be eligible for colorectal cancer screening. Some patients and advocates question whether the province is ready for the additional pressure on the system, but Ontario says it's boosting capacity.

Every Manitoba hospital will soon begin building electronic records that will mean a patient's care history follows them from one hospital to another.

After her music blew up during lockdown, Canadian indie musician Hannah Judge, a.k.a. fanclubwallet, says it's been challenging to navigate a music career and touring while managing the symptoms of Crohn's disease. She explores how she and other musicians do it in a short documentary for CBC Ottawa’s Creator Network.

Alice Carrier died by suicide last year. Her mother says OpenAI failed to implement necessary safeguards despite knowing about the state of her daughter's mental health and even reinforced harmful views.

The shift toward deep space exploration is set to bring new developments for Earth’s health-care systems, researchers say, including innovations such as portable medical technology and robotic care.

A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of people who were the subject of birth alerts, which shared private information without the person's knowledge, has reached a $66-million proposed settlement, according to class counsel.

The odds are slim — only one in 755 men will be diagnosed with this type of cancer in their lifetime. But X-Men star Tyler Mane says he's now among them.

Canada aims to join countries worldwide restricting social media for children and youth, but some experts say it's what else is in the country's new online harm bill – including safety requirements for social platforms and a new regulator – that could set Canada's approach apart.

Infection rates for deadly mosquito-borne diseases are extremely low in Canada. But experts warn climate change and evolving environmental factors — including deforestation — are rapidly expanding the geographical range of the world's deadliest animal, and the way it lives and breeds.

Proposed legislation to ban the sale of energy drinks to people under 16 in Quebec is expected to pass on Thursday. It would make the province the first North American jurisdiction to impose age-based restrictions on caffeinated energy drinks.

The federal government is moving to restrict young Canadians' access to social media unless those companies can show they've made their platforms safe.

New data suggests the rate of nicotine pouch use among young people has skyrocketed — with 34.8 per cent of respondents saying they've tried the product.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government will table a bill on Wednesday which is expected to restrict young Canadians' access to social media platforms and bring in online safety standards.

A study commissioned by former U.S. president Joe Biden's administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms was released independently on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump's administration decided not to feature the researchers' findings in new dietary guidelines as it faced pushback from the alcohol industry and a congressional committee.

Screwworm won't kneecap Canada's beef industry, but an advocate says the parasite's incursion into the U.S. is a good reminder for farmers and ranchers here to take extra precautions.

Amid the ongoing toxic drug crisis, an informal network of support has emerged among drug users. Part of this network are individuals referred to by their clients as “doctors” — everyday people with no formal medical training — who offer to inject people for a small fee.

Diagnosed with bipolar I in his 30s, Miguel Pommainville-Cléroux shares the impact of mania and repeated hospitalizations on his job, family, relationships and life in this column for CBC Ottawa's First Person.

Environmental advocates, doctors, and even players themselves demanding FIFA to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry, which they say is adversely impacting players' health, and threatening the future of the sport itself.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday that it would temporarily restrict livestock from entering Canada from affected parts of the United States, after screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was confirmed on a farm in Texas.

The 1976 legionnaires' disease investigation revealed how modernization, through things like HVAC systems, can unintentionally increase the possibility of exposure to environmental pathogens — and how critical it is to widely share public health updates.