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HOLLIS, Maine - A 9-year-old Maine girl is home after undergoing a transplant of six organs to remove a tumour that was spreading throughout her abdomen.
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TORONTO - A U.S. company that sells a thalidomide-based drug into Canada has agreed to lower the price of the medication.
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TORONTO - A U.S. company that sells a thalidomide-based drug into Canada has agreed to lower the price of the medication.
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TORONTO - The Public Health Agency says any research on enhanced H5N1 bird flu viruses in Canada must be done in laboratories with the top level of biosecurity.
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TORONTO - The long-awaited Drummond Commission report on reforming Ontario's government to trim a $16 billion deficit will be released Feb. 15.
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TORONTO - A federally appointed panel of experts has endorsed use of HPV vaccine in males in Canada, potentially opening the door to wider use of the vaccine in boys and young men.
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LEDUC, Alta. - A public safety warning has been issued by the RCMP after a potentially dangerous drug used in the treatment of cancer was taken from an Edmonton-area drug store.
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Dementia is an umbrella term for a variety of degenerative brain disorders, which lead to loss of memory, judgment and reasoning, as well as changes in mood and behaviour.
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TORONTO - A U.S. company that sells a thalidomide-based drug into Canada has agreed to lower the price of medication.
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TORONTO - Perhaps it begins with recurring forgetfulness, a struggle to find words or maybe needing repeated reminders about an upcoming event. Or it may be that some everyday tasks, performed over a lifetime with unthinking ease, suddenly seem overwhelming.
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ATLANTA - Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.
Scores of adults in northern California report crawling skin sensations and other bizarre symptoms.
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At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers for research into dementia.
It's a personal cause. The disease killed his wife Colleen in 2009 and is beginning to affect him.
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TORONTO - Two top officials have been formally removed from their positions at Ontario's air ambulance service.
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LONDON - The World Health Organization says the highest levels ever of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been found in Russia and Moldova.
But the agency didn't have data from most of Africa and India, where tuberculosis rates are much higher.
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CALGARY - The husband of a Calgary woman severely beaten in Mexico says his wife is slowly recovering after extensive facial reconstruction surgery.
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LONDON - Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults — long considered the least susceptible — a new study suggests.
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CALGARY - Alberta health officials are urging anyone who received piercings from an unlicensed Calgary practitioner to get tested for hepatitis and HIV.
The operation inside Avon Apna Jewellers in the city's northeast has been shut down.
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CALGARY - Alberta health experts will be going into classrooms and using Twitter to warn about a deadly drug similar to ecstasy that has been linked to a growing number of deaths in Western Canada.
Police say warning people about PMMA — known as "Dr.
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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier David Alward says a new panel will help the province prepare for the shifting needs of today's aging population.
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EDMONTON - Gem Hebert is not shy about bearing her backside for medical science.
The 61-year-old woman is one of about two dozen Alberta patients confined to a bed or wheelchair who are helping test a new technology called Smart-e-Pants.
