New Canadian research suggests close to a third of life-threatening complications linked to pregnancy and childbirth happen to women during the first six weeks following a delivery — a time when mothers typically experience far less medical tracking and support than they did during pregnancy.
Got a nagging father-in-law or a roommate who hounds you endlessly about how to properly load the dishwasher? Such people have something in common: they're hasslers, and they may be slowly shaving years off your life and putting you at a higher risk of developing chronic disease, according to a new study.
The advice on how to prevent peanut allergy in babies did a U-turn. Here's the scientific basis and practical tips for parents to apply the advice.
In the last decade, four people have died in Canada after giving plasma, and three of those deaths happened in Manitoba, Health Canada says.
The Ontario government has served notice it will end funding to at least two drug consumption sites in Toronto.
A trial directly comparing two commonly used blood-thinning drugs found that one carries a lower risk of dangerous bleeding in patients with clots in veins deep in the body, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.
Hospital emergency rooms are overflowing, resulting in patients being treated in storage rooms and hallways as they wait days for a bed. Doctors say it's happening against a backdrop of behind-the-scenes backlogs, access issues and an aging population that are all impacting the flow of patients through the health-care system.
To help prevent a backlog of patients in emergency rooms, Alberta hospitals should not cap the number of patients who can be admitted to wards, says a review completed in the wake of a 44-year-old Edmonton man’s death in an ER.
Paid plasma could be banned in Manitoba, the province's health minister said after two fatal adverse reactions at Winnipeg collection centres were reported to Health Canada.
A new program in remote First Nations across northwestern Ontario aims to improve access to medical transportation and emergency medical service training. Communities are leading the emergency first response team (EFRT) program in partnership with the air ambulance service Ornge. Here's how the EFRT aims to improve health-care access in fly-in First Nations.
Toronto author Jowita Bydlowska had told the world how she got sober in her 2013 bestselling memoir Drunk Mom. What she didn’t expect was having to write about relapsing over a decade later.
London police are looking for a person driving around the city's downtown who was allegedly handing out drugs to people who subsequently overdosed after consuming them.
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