Don't depend on the federal government to tell you what's safe: it's struggling to live up to its responsibility to evaluate and regulate more than 23,000 common consumer chemicals.
With Hollywood celebrities in their 40s popping out multiple babies, Infertility Awareness Week highlights the challenges faced Canadians who want donor eggs.
B.C. health minister George Abbott announced May 5 that girls entering Grades 6 and 9 will be offered the controversial human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil.
With hopes fading for the discovery of an HIV vaccine in the near future, the director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS has called on the federal government to step up HIV prevention and treatment programs.
Health Canada has expressed concerns that if antibiotics are given too freely to animals, it raises the risk of antibiotic-resistant diseases developing in people.
Frequent visits mean familiarity at the pharmacy and later riding the balance between a bearable level of pain and enduring hallucinations from the hundreds of dollars' worth of medication bought there.
Our columnist continues his dispatches from the front line against cancer. This week, how moving to a small town with great pizza doesn’t help with a lump in his gut.
After more than two decades of living mostly in Vancouver, Evan Adams has returned home to his Sliammon band reserve near Powell River. A prominent gay actor who finished a medical degree and is now British Columbia’s first aboriginal-health physician adviser, Adams is settling in with his partner and their son in their own house.
