Health

Jenny McCarthy and Gwyneth Paltrow prove celebrity health endorsements can be double-edged. Emma Teitel on why Jolie’s latest op-ed worked.

What harm could come from sending off a sample of your DNA to find out your genetic history and potential health problems?

Our current approach to getting parents to vaccinate isn’t working. Why it may be time to look further afield for solutions

Gambling in Liberia, both literally and figuratively—either way, it’s foreigners taking in all the chips and reaping rewards while locals look on

The future is almost here: e-check-ins, medical history updated online—and the first fully digitized hospital

Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute have found that an ancient herbal remedy could prevent Ebola from attacking the immune system

The feds on a Canada-wide vaccine registry: ’Please contact the provinces’

Most doctors don’t use Facebook or Twitter professionally. A university asks: Should they?

Inuit have dozens of words for snow. Canadians as a whole have hundreds of swear words for winter.

Today’s Parent put reader questions to Ontario’s minister of education.