BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital.
If you live to 100, is it because of genetics or your lifestyle? In this week’s “Dr. Sanjay Gupta On Call,” Dr. Gupta explains what matters most when it comes to longevity.
Dr. Iris Gorfinkel is here to unpack the week's biggest health headlines. We dive into the deadly rabies case in Brantford Ontario and what we know so far. We also explore why the government isn’t offering the Novavax COVID vaccine and look at what’s driving low vaccination rates. Plus, find out why more Canadians are skipping alcohol.
A 57-year-old Toronto driver has been charged with careless driving causing death and two counts of careless driving causing bodily harm for his involvement in a crash that killed 46-year-old pedestrian Julia Cleveland in September, Toronto police say. The collision happened in the area of Annette Street and Pacific Avenue, near Dundas Street W. and Keele Street, shortly after 8 p.m. on Sept. 23. The man charged was driving a Hyundai Elantra north on Pacific Avenue, while a 34-year-old woman was
Stolen IDs, electronic billing and the growth of telemedicine have caused Medicare fraud to spike and spread, with South Florida accounting for more than half of all criminal cases in U.S.
The jab is being developed in the UK.
Dr. Chris Goodyear, a general surgeon at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, has issued a challenge to all the candidates in the upcoming provincial election.He wants them to sign a contract saying that if elected, they will spend 48 hours in a New Brunswick emergency department bed, wearing a Johnny shirt, "to experience health care first-hand," before they walk into the legislature."I think if we have a legislative assembly full of people that had that experience, things may be s
According to the CDC, the sick travelers' symptoms included diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache and muscle aches
Dark leafy greens aren’t your only option.
Ellen DeGeneres discusses aging and life with three health diagnoses, osteoporosis, arthritis, OCD, and ADHD in her new Netflix special, “For Your Approval.”
More than 3,000 volunteers from 46 states are participating in what’s being called the largest brain study to date.
Ghana's health service has announced the country's first case of mpox this year, without disclosing the specific variant of the highly contagious virus – which continues to spread across Africa. The patient is a young male from the Western North Region, about 475 kilometres from the capital, Accra. He is experiencing symptoms typical of mpox, including fever, rash and body pains.Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the director-general of Ghana Health Service (GHS), confirmed that the man has been isolated acc
The government's pharmacare legislation has survived a key step on the way to becoming law and could pass the Senate next week.Bill C-64, a framework for the implementation of national pharmacare, passed through the Senate's social affairs, science and technology committee without amendments on Thursday. It now proceeds to a final vote on the floor of the Senate.The bill, which was a condition of the now-defunct supply and confidence deal between the NDP and Liberals, is set for a third reading
A U.K. mom is speaking out about her daughter's hair-eating disorder, known as Rapunzel Syndrome, after struggling to find help — before it was nearly too late
Duchess Sophie will follow in Princess Kate's footsteps make a very rare on-screen appearance next week for a special cause close to her heart. See details.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said.
There's an area on Highway 3 near Nelson, B.C., that Dr. Nicholas Sparrow knows well. There are no markers or special features, but he can easily find where he helped a person in an accident get out of their vehicle with broken femurs in both legs.A broken femur can cause a person to lose up to 1.5 litres of blood, so he had to work fast. "Potentially now this is a major, major trauma with potential for blood loss," he recently told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC's White Coat, Black Art. The pat
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you have stained or chipped teeth, you might be considering veneers, customized teeth coverings that can restore a photogenic smile without more extensive dental work.
The skunk was found in Lexington’s Andover Hills neighborhood.
A child from the Brantford, Ont., area has died from rabies, says a local medical officer of health. Dr. Malcolm Lock of the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit told councillors at a board of health meeting Wednesday that the child had been exposed to the virus in the Timiskaming region, just north of Sudbury. "They woke up with a bat in their room," Lock said. "The parents looked, didn't see any signs of a bite or scratches or saliva, and didn't seek getting a rabies vaccine." Last month, the child w
Exhausted medical staff are struggling to cope with the daily influx of new patients in Lebanon's southern province of Tyre, where many doctors have fled along with residents.
