One person has died and 87 cases of salmonella food poisoning have been linked to three brands of contaminated cheese in Quebec, provincial health authorities said Friday in announcing a recall.
The flu shot does help protect against specific strains of influenza but its ability to help prevent deaths among the elderly may have been exaggerated, a new study suggests.
The Canadian Association of Pathologists released new guidelines for testing Wednesday, a plan that calls for pathology test results to be verified by an external, independent laboratory.
You've heard those heat and smog alert warnings. Stay indoors and avoid exercise. But health experts say the benefits of getting in your exercise outweigh the risks, as long as you are healthy and take precautions.
Scientists who identified a possible link to high incidences of stomach cancer in Aklavik, N.W.T., say they would be willing to take their research to the remote Yukon community of Old Crow, but only if residents ask for it.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday eased its warning on tomatoes, saying it's safe to eat tomatoes again as the salmonella outbreak slows.
An Alberta woman who died of caterpillar-induced bleeding is at the centre of a teaching case published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by the team of Edmonton doctors who treated her.
Researchers launching a pilot project in northern Quebec hope a "do-it-yourself" test for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, might help reduce the rates of cervical cancer in Canada's North.
