Canada’s chief public health officer says more children are being hospitalized this flu season because of an early spike in a strain of influenza B, which...
About 15 years ago, an Amish family in the eastern U.S. was hit by an unexplainable tragedy — one of their children died suddenly while playing...
Overdose deaths have dropped in Richmond with only nine recorded in the first nine months of 2019. This is from a high of 28 in 2017....
For the first time in British Columbia, the public will be able to check drugs at home with take-home fentanyl test strips. The strips, which were...
FENTANYL test strips will soon be available for people to take home from designated sites throughout the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region after results from a...
A B.C. father of two young boys now has the right to have them immunized following a year-long court battle with the children’s mother regarding vaccinations....
SALMON ARM — A judge says the father of two boys has the right to ensure his children receive necessary immunizations and dental treatments, despite objections...
Vancouver Coastal Health will begin offering free take-home fentanyl testing strips from several locations in the city starting next week. The strips reveal whether your recreational...
The study, published Thursday in the journal the Lancet, found that sepsis has killed fewer people over the last couple decades, but still accounts for 1...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved an important vaccine against Ebola, five years after an epidemic in West Africa killed 11,310 people and after...
