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Even from a few kilometres away, Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira is able to perform a critical diagnostic procedure, thanks to an internet connection and a remote-controlled robot. It's still early in its development, and the robot necessary is expensive, . ...

Celebrity claims are fuelling confusion about the risks of Lyme disease. For The National, CBC's senior health reporter Christine Birak investigates what's really behind the boom in high-profile cases and uncovers a big-money industry profiting off . ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised childhood vaccine recommendations earlier this month, but Canadian health experts don't think this country will follow suit. That's because public health bodies carefully consider the needs ...

People over 80 with memory of those in their 50s show less brain shrinkage and other differences. For a Canadian centenarian, the secret might lie in his passion for sharing a vocation turned hobby.

Hundreds of Kashechewan First Nation evacuees have arrived in Niagara Falls, one of the Ontario cities taking in people from the Cree community as it endures a water crisis. With 1,700 expected in the Niagara Region city alone, authorities and local ...

An Alberta government pledge to bring so-called "triage liaison physicians" back to some emergency rooms could help ensure sick patients are better prioritized, some doctors say.

For months, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has pulled hundreds of items containing pistachios from shelves over possible salmonella contamination. Some retailers are choosing to avoid even unrecalled pistachio products altogether until the ...

Life is quieter in Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario. Some children can still be seen playing hockey on a snow-packed road, but that would have been more common three weeks earlier had the community's water-treatment plant not failed. Amid ...

One thousand RCMP employees, past and present, allege as part of a class-action lawsuit headed to Federal Court this month, that they were subjected to "improper and invasive" breast, genital and rectal exams during mandatory medical screening, CBC . ...

Alberta's measles case counts have jumped after several quieter months, sparking concerns about the province's ability to quash the outbreak.