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A recently launched mental health app, The Burns Way, allows Canadian military veterans dealing with mental-health struggles to speak anonymously with another veteran for support.

Moderna said on Friday Canada's health regulator has approved its vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus in adults 60 years and older, making it the country's first authorized mRNA-based shot for the condition.

Following a groundbreaking court decision about out-of-province care and an about-face from Nova Scotia's premier, two women are still processing how their lives — and potentially thousands of others — could soon change for the better.

On day one of Donald Trump's presidency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he'll be advising Trump to take fluoride out of public water. The former presidential hopeful — and prominent proponent of debunked public health claims — has described fluoride as "industrial waste."

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for nine countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organizations say. 

One in four parents say they cut back on their own food consumption to ensure their children had enough to eat in the past year, according to the Salvation Army.

Dr. Elaine Ma, who was celebrated for organizing drive-thru vaccination clinics that helped thousands get their shots at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being ordered to pay back more than $600,000 in fees for those same services.

Canada's largest network of dental practices has obtained an injunction forcing a former "partner" to cease involvement with a planned franchise business, described in court documents as "something like a McDonald's" of dentistry.

As construction plans get underway for a new health and maternity centre in La Crete, Alta., community members are voicing excitement about the project they say has been sorely needed.

The Alberta government is permanently cutting off the flow of publicly funded vaccines to community medical clinics, save a select few, sparking yet another wave of concern from health-care providers.

A new coalition of Canadian health-care workers is hoping to "revolutionize" frostbite care in Canada, in part by promoting a groundbreaking treatment protocol developed years ago by some Yukoners. 

A coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman in RCMP holding cells in Prince George, B.C., has recommended that officers staff a detention guard 24/7 to see if prisoners are in medical distress.

The province outlawed the sale of all vaping liquid flavours other than tobacco in 2023 to curb their appeal for young people. But some say the move has had little effect on consumption.

Fort Erie, Ont., resident Mike Nayler never thought he'd see his "four-legged daughter" Minnie again after having to surrender her to a shelter two years ago while he was enduring terminal cancer. Last week, Nayler and the mastiff mix reunited — with a tackle and many licks to his face.

The Salvation Army found more than 125 people sleeping outside during one 24-hour period last month. CBC followed one of the teams.

Some people in Halifax say they aren't troubled by having have few or no friends, according to a study conducted by Dalhousie and St. Francis Xavier universities.

Quebec says too many of its newly trained physicians are leaving the public health system as soon as their careers begin. The health minister plans to table a bill to curb this trend.

Polls and data can’t always capture the complexity of individual decision-making. To take falling birth rates beyond the numbers, CBC spoke with a series of women about what went into their choice.

Actor James Van Der Beek, best known for his role in the late '90s and early 2000s teen drama Dawson's Creek, has revealed he was recently diagnosed with cancer.

Health-care critics and legal experts are calling on the Ontario government to review its medical oversight system after CBC News uncovered a fourth alleged victim tied to a disgraced pediatrician who nevertheless remained employed for nearly 40 years in Toronto.