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Experts say cognitive health is about much more than forgetting someone's name or where you put your phone. But studies have shown there are lots of things we can do to help our brains stay sharp — from exercise to sleep to social connections. 

Allergy Quebec is recommending the removal of peanut bans in schools, favouring education and awareness like other provinces have done.

Even though 2024 marked the first time the H5N1 bird flu was reported in dairy cows, researchers have known for decades that influenza viruses can target the cells that make up mammary glands.

Living donors are the best option for many in need of a kidney transplant. But patients and nephrologists say the testing process could be more streamlined for living donors.

Videos and tutorials about walking backwards have been popping up on social media recently, but biomechanist Janet Dufek has been studying this form of exercise for about 20 years.

Shirley Bremault was shocked when she found out the family doctor who visits her Calgary seniors community once a week is closing up shop at the end of August. 

A California bill that aimed to ban selling certain anti-aging skin-care products to children under age 13 failed to move forward last week, ending Democratic Assemblymember Alex Lee's attempt to combat the so-called Sephora kids trend.

If cows become infected with H5N1 bird flu in Canada, gloves, goggles and masks could join work boots and coveralls as important protection in farmers' wardrobes.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a multi-million dollar funding commitment to build a vaccine plant in Montreal to churn out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by the end of 2020. Four years later, not a single vial of vaccine has rolled off the line.

The retail and pharmacy chain had to shut down its nearly 80 stores across B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba for a week after the cyberattack was reported on April 28.

The impact of Canada’s primary-care crisis is being felt acutely in Sault Ste. Marie Ont., where 10,000 people will be cut off from their family doctor at the end of May. CBC’s Nick Purdon breaks down the Group Health Centre’s de-rostering and what it means for patients.

Tobacco companies still actively target young people via social media, sports and music festivals and new, flavoured products, the World Health Organization says.

A new study suggests historic problems in northwestern Ontario from mercury contamination in the 1960s and 70s are being made worse by ongoing industrial pollution. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario have released the results of a study which found that discharge from the Dryden Paper Mill is combining with mercury dumped into the English-Wabigoon river decades ago to create an even more toxic compound: methylmercury.

In six years, the number of naloxone kits for opioid overdoses distributed in Quebec pharmacies has jumped from fewer than 7,000 a year to 78,000.

The B.C. First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) has confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack, and that some employee personal information was likely impacted in the breach.

For years, Jason Evans says people treated him like he was "crazy and a conspiracy theorist" when he talked about the contaminated blood scandal that killed his father.

A doctor from Nepal who is now living on P.E.I. with his wife and young son says getting a health-care job is starting to seem out of reach.

A Michigan farm worker has been diagnosed with bird flu, becoming the second U.S. case tied to dairy cows.

The province of Nova Scotia acknowledged in a recent interview with CBC News that it intends to have standards and enforcement in place by 2030, but it will not be barrier-free by 2030.

A family from Gatineau, Que., is reeling after being told they will be discharged from their family doctor in Ottawa.