Health

Researchers also uncovered a positive connection between human health and mantra meditation — the practice of focusing your mind by repeatedly chanting a mantra.

Ontario is reporting 155 new measles cases over the last week, pushing the province’s case count to 816 since an outbreak began in the fall.

A popular provider of eye care products is recalling several types of artificial lenses in Canada, noting reports of inflammation it says 'could not immediately be explained.'

In the past seven days, SWPH has seen an increase in 35 cases, a total of 343 since October.

Ontario is looking for up to 80 new or expanded primary care teams to serve 300,000 patients, as it plans to build a system that automatically attaches people to a family doctor or nurse practitioner team based on their postal code.

A family is suing Humber River Hospital, claiming staff did nothing when their daughter reported being sexually harassed and assaulted by another patient while in their care.

The government of Canada is facing a new court challenge over the constitutionality of Health Canada’s screening criteria that prohibits potentially lifesaving organ donations from gay and bisexual men.

Dr. Nimish Mittal, a physiatrist at the University Health Network in Toronto and the medical director of the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic, said EDS is a group of genetic conditions that affect connective tissue in the human body.

Texas surpassed 500 measles cases Tuesday, just days after a third person died from a measles-related illness.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday.

Clusters of additives often used by industry in certain food categories may be more harmful when eaten together than alone, according to a new study which found two such mixtures linked to a small but significant increase in type 2 diabetes.

A three-year-old girl has become Mexico’s first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, health officials said Tuesday.

A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated, public health officials say.

Health officials in New York have named Ontario in a recent measles travel advisory, urging tourists to get vaccinated before visiting the province as it grapples with an ongoing outbreak of the disease.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy also said he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue.