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Watch Tom Murphy's interview with Sanja Stanojevic, an associate professor in Dalhousie University's department of community health and epidemiology.

Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield convinced a bunch of teenagers to give her full access to their phones, where she saw social media's impact on young minds in real time.

A research lab in Saskatoon wants to feed people weed gummies and strap them into a driving simulator to test how impaired they are.

Reports of Intimate partner violence have skyrocketed since the pandemic, says the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada. Amid calls for more family and community-based interventions to prevent abuse and help families heal, this woman shares what it .. ...

A Nasakpi community in Quebec advocated for the return of Gilles-Francis Pone Shecanapish after he was transferred for psychiatric evaluation 500 kilometres away following an incident in town.

Physicians who spoke to CBC wonder whether better supports -- including urgent care clinics and advanced paramedic care -- could allow some rural ERs to close permanently to remedy chronic, sporadic shutdowns and inconsistent service.

A registered nurse who was the last witness in the weeks-long inquest for six Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre inmates testified she'd like to reassure her patients they'll undoubtedly be connected to community resources when they're let out, but ...

Cleroux is currently serving a seven-year jail sentence in Ontario for posing as a nurse at two Ottawa clinics.

Tel-Jeunes, which has served the province since 1991, says 40 per cent of all its calls are related to mental health issues, and there has also been a spike in the number of youth contemplating suicide.

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) will not have access to the medical records of Indigenous patients it says were harmed by provincial health providers' liver transplant policies, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.