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Canada’s new 988 suicide prevention helpline has received approximately 1,000 calls and nearly 450 texts per day since its launch in November, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), which operators say is consistent with what they expected.
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In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the International Association for Suicide Prevention is calling on Canada to create a national suicide prevention strategy.
China on Wednesday reported the death of a woman due to an infection of combined H3N2 and H10N5 strains of bird flu after a cross-species transmission, but said the risk of human-to-human transmission is low.
Failure to shed pounds is often not about lacking the willpower to make important lifestyle changes, such as eating healthier, reducing calories and increasing physical activity. The dirty little secret is that our bodies are programmed by evolution to hold on to fat.
The Public Policy Forum says Canada's handling of health records is woefully out of date and negatively affecting patient care.
A measure that would prohibit smoking in Atlantic City's casinos moved forward Monday after three years of going nowhere, heartening casino workers who say they are literally sick and tired of having smoke blown in their faces at work.
Ice cream made from snow is having a moment online, but scientists say you might want to pause before digging into a bowl of snow ice cream.
Britain's government will ban the sale of disposable vapes and limit their cornucopia of flavours to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine, officials said Monday. It also plans to stick to a contentious proposal to ban today's young people from ever buying cigarettes.
With infections and deaths linked to measles soaring abroad, medical experts warn that waning immunization rates are increasing risks of the virus's return to Canada.
Canadians are finding it difficult to get treatment for strep A because of long wait times at busy hospitals and clinics.
One death may be associated with the cookies that contained peanuts as an unlisted ingredient: the New York resident who ate them at a social gathering in Connecticut, state health and consumer protection officials said.
The maker of Robitussin cough syrup is recalling several lots of products containing honey due to contamination that could pose a serious risk to people with weakened immune systems.
Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women and girls' participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them.
While strep infections are often mild, an invasive strain means some Canadians are ending up in the hospital with symptoms as severe as flesh-eating disease. Here are some of their stories.
Health Canada issued recalls for blinds from four companies over strangulation hazards in a matter of just two days.
Most Canadians don't think the quality of health care in their province is likely to improve, a new survey suggests, despite new federal health accords with several provinces designed to quell the health-care crisis unfolding across Canada.
