Tag Archives: Health
Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile
OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and hopes her story can advance a broader r...
Oct 12, 2025
Canada's first non-beating heart transplant could lead to shorter wait lists: UHN
TORONTO - A Toronto hospital says it transplanted a heart that stopped beating last month in a Canadian first that has the potential to substantially shorten the long wait for a donor. University Heal...
Oct 11, 2025
Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging
OTTAWA - Sen. Patrick Brazeau is trying a second time to pass legislation that would add cancer warning labels to alcohol packaging. The Senate is studying Bill S-202, a revival of legislation Brazeau...
Oct 09, 2025
Trump's Tylenol misinformation revives history of 'mom blaming' in autism, docs say
TORONTO - When U.S. President Donald Trump urged pregnant women to avoid Tylenol because of an unproven belief it can cause autism, Julie Green was brought back to the mom-blaming claims she heard mor...
Oct 09, 2025
These autistic Canadians say U.S. rhetoric has been unhelpful, focus should be on early diagnoses
TORONTO - By the time Moira Robertson got an official autism diagnosis at 23 years old, she had missed out on a lot of the government-funded support she desperately needed. Her childhood and adolescen...
Oct 07, 2025
Number of temporary worker applications fell as fine total increased, government says
OTTAWA - Ottawa ordered companies to pay almost $5 million in fines in the last fiscal year for failing to comply with the rules for temporary foreign worker permits, new government data shows. A new ...
Oct 06, 2025
Premature baby boy abandoned on porch of home on Montreal's South Shore
LONGUEUIL - Police say a premature baby boy was abandoned Sunday night outside a home on Montreal's South Shore. Longueuil police say someone left the boy on the porch of the home at around 11 p.m., r...
Oct 06, 2025
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on the human immune system
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senio...
Oct 06, 2025
AI helps Ont. researcher discover breakthrough antibiotic treatment for bowel disease
HAMILTON - Jon Stokes's research lab has discovered what could be a breakthrough treatment for Crohn's and inflammatory bowel disease in about 100 seconds. Rather, his AI sequencing tool discovered it...
Oct 05, 2025
Montrealers gather to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
MONTREAL - Shirley Pien spends a lot of time in Cabot Square, a park in downtown Montreal where many homeless people gather. The woman works as health navigator for an Indigenous-led health clinic in ...
Oct 04, 2025