Is Cracking Your Knuckles Bad for You?
Mom always warned it would lead to arthritis, but is there any research to back up that claim? Our medical experts weigh in.
This is What Your Doctor First Notices About You
Your doctor's keen eye can pick up on a lot of silent clues about your health.
This Simple New Blood Test Can Detect Alzheimer’s Risk With 96% Accuracy
Alzheimer's disease often begins a decade before you show symptoms. "Ideally, we'd like people to be screened for Alzheimer's disease...
By Donating Their Children’s Organs, These Parents Gave Other Families Hope
“Instead of five families mourning the loss of their child, it’s only ours. That’s why organ donation is worth it.”
How Stem Cell Therapy is Saving Lives
New medical advances promise relief from back pain, vision loss, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis and other diseases—all using stem cells, the...
Doctors Thought This Ontario Teen Had E. Coli—Until Her Organs Started Failing
But if it wasn't the raw cookie dough Claire had eaten, what could possibly be causing her body to shut...
How Well Do You Remember Your First Aid Training?
Put your knowledge of emergency response terms to the ultimate test with our multiple choice trivia quiz.
This Simple Blood Test Could Detect 50 Types of Cancer
...And more exciting breakthroughs in the fight against cancer.
How to Beat Diabetes
Scientific breakthroughs are now helping to prevent the disease, and even put it into remission.
35 Medical Trivia Questions Only Geniuses Will Get Right
How well do you know your health lingo? These challenging medical trivia questions are the ultimate test of your health...
How Asthma Became One of the Most Overdiagnosed Diseases in Canada
Wondering why your asthma medication isn't working? Perhaps it's because you're suffering from a different condition altogether.
Why Body Mass Index Isn’t the Best Measure of Health
Although the metric can predict health risk for some, BMI is nearly useless for many people.
How a Chicago Hospital Pulled Off Back-to-Back Triple Organ Transplants
Before 2018, only 15 triple organ transplants—heart, liver and kidney—had ever been performed in the United States. Then, over the...
The 10 Greatest Canadian Health Discoveries
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Banting and Best's discovery of insulin—a groundbreaking drug that changed diabetes from a death...
13 Things You Didn’t Know About Talk Therapy
A 2016 survey by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found that among respondents who had experienced anxiety or...
How to Talk to Your Doctor
With health practitioners busier than ever, communication is essential to getting the best care.
18 Things Nurses Secretly Wish You’d Stop Doing
So that old joke about making sure they operate on the right part? It's actually not that funny.
The Surprising Reason Canadians Are Flocking to This Tropical Paradise
Long touted as the culinary capital of the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands are boasting a new draw for Canadian travellers:...
Medical News That Could Save Your Life
Between a "cure" for peanut allergies and a vaccine for celiac disease, this medical news represents potentially life-saving breakthroughs.
This Woman Thought She Had an Infected Mosquito Bite—But the Actual Diagnosis Was Terrifying
What first appeared to be an insect bite turned out to be something far more dangerous.
40 Secrets Surgeons Won’t Tell You
Surgeons have our lives in their hands, but most of us know more about the people who cut our hair...
8 Ways to Use Your T-Shirt to Treat Injuries
If you can't get professional medical help right away, you can still stop a bad bleed, prevent wound infection or...
