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A 50-year-old woman would suddenly fall asleep multiple times while getting ready for work, slurring her speech and falling. She was eventually diagnosed with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition where the gut becomes a mini-brewery.

A First Nation that has faced decades of mercury poisoning is suing the provincial and federal governments, arguing they've failed to protect its treaty rights.The lawsuit by Grassy Narrows First Nation comes in the wake of research indicating industrial pollution is exacerbating mercury contamination in the English-Wabigoon River system.

Allison Hill started Hill Run Club — a body-positive, size-inclusive and culturally sensitive running group for Black women of all running levels — in 2021. It's expanded to have 500 members across Canada.

Jessica Grant and Mackenzie Ashby have been waiting a long time for a surgery they say will dramatically reduce their pain and improve their quality of life.

The blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy has been available in Canada since early May, but anybody hoping to use it will have to shell out about $400 a month. The scientific director of Obesity Canada says that lack of coverage will cost the country in the long run.

Children under 18 and people with disabilities will be eligible for the federal government's dental plan starting June 27, federal ministers said Monday.

A B.C. woman says it’s “offensive” that Canada’s largest advocacy group for seniors has teamed up with Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, a tobacco giant now promoting e-cigarettes. A tobacco researcher says it’s the latest effort by big tobacco to encourage unhealthy and addictive vaping.

Jorg Santowski can repair a lot of things, but he's finding it nearly impossible to fix the situation caused by his old red and white Ontario health card.

Dry eye disease affects millions of Canadians, and more and more young people are being diagnosed. What can you do about it?

A psychiatrist and a firefighter who responded to multiple major traffic crashes share what can push an individual to the point of being unable to work or facing damaging effects on family life.

Being an alcoholic isn’t something that Matthew Heneghan openly shares with pride. But he still wants to share it publicly in the hopes it might help others seek the help they need.

Seniors are among the fastest-growing age group for using cannabis in Canada. Meanwhile, the number of seniors ending up in emergency departments with cannabis poisoning has also risen sharply since legalization, new research shows.

Advocates across Alberta are looking to the government to reassess the rules around the province’s Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program. Some say the program penalizes people with disabilities when they want to have children.

A Federal Court judge recently granted a judicial review forcing Health Canada to reconsider a Calgary man's request to use medical grade psilocybin to treat extreme pain from cluster headaches. The decision also highlights the need to consider a patient's Charter rights in requests to access controlled substances.

Another Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu, the third human case associated with an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows, health officials said Thursday.

People should be able to get a mammogram starting at age 40 but it shouldn’t be routinely offered for for women under 50 who are of average risk, new Canadian screening guidelines suggest.

At a time when Canada is vastly expanding its child-care system, and just eight months after a major E. coli outbreak in Calgary child-care centres, an Alberta Health Services analysis shows the province is lagging in its rate of daycare inspections, falling short of its guideline of at least one health and safety inspection per year at each of the province's licensed daycare centres.

The newly-launched Pan-Canadian Milk Network is conducting ongoing tests of the Canadian milk supply in an effort to spot any fragments of the H5N1 virus in case any dairy cows become infected here amid an unprecedented outbreak of bird flu in herds across the U.S.

Federal Health Minister Mark Holland said Wednesday he needs new powers to unilaterally take dangerous products off the shelves if they're hurting people and are not being used as intended.

Toronto's top doctor is calling the opioid overdose crisis a drug toxicity epidemic and is pushing for an empathetic health response as officials release preliminary annual data on the city's overdose deaths.