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Canadian students have won a global design prize by developing an early prototype of a cheap, handheld heat scanner that could one day help doctors diagnose skin cancer quickly and painlessly in their offices.
Read More...Boy with rare disease gets most of skin replaced through gene therapy
Desperate to save a seven-year-old boy's life, doctors used experimental gene therapy to create new skin in a lab after skin graft attempts had failed.
Plant-based milks shouldn’t be main beverage for young children, health experts say
Canada's pediatricians and dietitians say rice, coconut and almond milks contain little to no protein, and some plant-based beverages aren't fortified with essential minerals or vitamins.
How useful is marijuana as medicine? New research centre aims to find out
As the use of medicinal cannabis grows, a new Ontario research centre says it plans to look into whether pot is actually an effective treatment for various ailments.
Stop using antibiotics in healthy farm animals, WHO warns
The World Health Organization is urging farmers to stop using antibiotics to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals because the practice fuels dangerous drug-resistant superbug infections in people.
Drug costs rising fast in Canadian health-care spending, report finds
More expensive "biologic" treatments and the end of a period when Canadians saw cost savings as patents expired and generics flooded the market driving growth in pharmaceutical prices, experts say.
Health Canada says abortion pill can be dispensed by pharmacists
The federal department announced Tuesday that the abortion pill can now be prescribed up to nine weeks into a pregnancy, rather than the previous limit of seven weeks, and can be dispensed directly to patients by pharmacists.
Toenails, saliva and urine could answer questions about Giant Mine’s toxic legacy
About 200 people in Yellowknife, Dettah and Ndilo have given toenail clippings, urine and saliva samples to researchers for a new study, which will measure how much arsenic is in their body.
Bad news: Eating local, organic won’t shrink your carbon footprint
If you’re paying more for local and organic groceries because you care about the environment, here’s some bad news: science shows your efforts won’t have much impact on your carbon…
For Canadians in queue for long-term care spots, waiting costs ‘astronomical’
The younger sisters of a Nova Scotia woman with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis say the costs of waiting to get her into a nursing home are hard for them to bear.
