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The agency announced that four separate items are being recalled due to possible contamination including products from the Montreal-based company Allo Simonne and two baklava pastries that were sold at a mall in Laval.

About 780,000 pressure washers sold at retailers like Home Depot are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada, due to a projectile hazard that has resulted in fractures and other injuries among some consumers.

Anti-smoking advocates urged the provinces and territories to use money from a historic tobacco settlement on public health programs as the provinces are set to receive initial amounts starting Friday.

As London deals with the fallout from the latest legionnaires' outbreak, there's a call for stricter Ontario regulations to help prevent mass spread of the bacteria that cause the respiratory infection. Over the past 13 years, Quebec and New ...

Too much caffeine can harm your health, say doctors.

Just when you thought there was enough going on in the world to frazzle your nerves, along comes a flesh-eating parasite that has been spreading among livestock in Central America and has now infected a recent traveller from the U.S. and another from ...

The likely source of a persistent outbreak of legionnaires' disease that's killed four people and sent more than 90 people to hospital in London, Ont., has been uncovered, with the Middlesex-London Health Unit linking it to a meat-processing plant.

Temperatures could reach as high as 39 C in some parts of B.C.'s Interior this week.

When Rosanna Gallant, 32, was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome in April, she sighed with relief -- after more than a decade, she says, her doctors finally took her symptoms seriously.

People trying to quit smoking should not reach for e-cigarettes or vapes as their first choice to butt out, a new Canadian guideline says.