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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.