With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice found 25-year-old Zain Xavier Wood guilty of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing a Prince George, B.C., mother in front of her two children in 2023.

Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday.

A year since measles started raging in Canada, the outbreak's subsided, but the virus shows no signs of being stamped out. Doctors say problems here — from distrust of medical officials in vulnerable ...

The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.

Medical director Dr. Jane Thornton updated IOC members on the initial findings of a working group studying the issue of transgender athletes competing in women's sports.

The car exploded near a metro station in a historic part of New Delhi on Monday night. Officials are investigating and security is tight around the region.

Medicines watchdog says criminals are designing packaging and branding to look like legitimate product Organised crime gangs have begun manufacturing their own branded weight-loss drugs, designed to look like legitimate medicines, in what authorities warn is a significant threat. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the trend had only just emerged, leading them to conduct the largest single seizure of trafficked weight-loss drugs ever recorded by any global law enforcement agency. Continue reading...

The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.

At least 21 people are now known to have died in the boat which was carrying undocumented migrants.

Fung-wong was the 21st typhoon to hit the South East Asian nation this year.

The blast happened near the Red Fort metro station in a densely populated area of the Indian capital.

Move to assess potential risk of remote meddling by Beijing with Yutong buses follows investigations in Norway and Denmark

At 104, Betty Reid Soskin has had the most extraordinary life, from protest singing to civil rights activism to meeting the Obamas. She reflects on what it takes to stay strong and keep going

A Kelowna mother who was told she may not live to see the end of the year received news she desperately needed to hear.

Rates of drinking in women and girls are, worryingly, on the rise. Shelly F. Greenfield, a psychiatrist specializing in substance use disorders, has been gathering data.

Canada has lost its measles elimination status as vaccination rates have slipped below the 95% coverage rate needed to stop outbreaks Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said on Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America. The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading. Continue reading...