Health

Canadians are working while ill to avoid losing income. Instituting country-wide sick-leave policies is a healthier option.

Immunologist Dawn Bowdish tells us why measles cases are soaring, who’s at risk and how we can still stamp it out

B.C. rolled out the Longitudinal Family Physician payment model and gained 700 new family doctors

Decades ago, Toronto researcher Daniel Drucker co-discovered a hormone that paved the way for today’s most-talked-about drug. Does he get the hype? Yes and no.

In Belleville, where I’m the chief paramedic, people were dropping like flies. Soon, the city declared a state of emergency.

In December, Ontario patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before being admitted to the hospital

This isn’t your average strep throat infection—in some cases, it can cause flesh-eating disease or even meningitis

With wait times getting longer by the year, the choice was easy

Winter has arrived. Give your body a little extra help by taking a probiotic.

“The units are modular, identical, 275-square-foot studios with galley kitchens, a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom”

Courtney Howard, an ER doctor and wildfire researcher, explains the urgency of converting public spaces into refuges where we can all breathe easier

“We have it better than the king of England did 500 years ago! I think about that when I’m distressed about the insignificance of my life, and that, in 30 or 40 years, I’ll be dead.”