Ebola outbreak: Clinics still short on doctors, supplies 6 months later

Doctors are in short supply. So are beds for patients. Six months after the Ebola outbreak emerged for the first time in an unprepared West Africa and eventually became the worst-ever outbreak, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and...

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Head lice: Most-used treatments no longer very effective, scientists say

With elementary school students back in class, more kids may be going home with itchy heads. That's due to the lice that get spread by the head-to-head interactions that happen frequently enough among kids that age. While the official recommendation...

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Liberia struggles to fight Ebola as newest, largest clinic reaches capacity

[The CBC's senior correspondent Adrienne Arsenault, producer Stephanie Jenzer and videographer Jean-François Bisson are in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia reporting on that country's ongoing battle against the deadly Ebola virus.] Liberia's...

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UN's Ebola virus HQ opens in Ghana

The UN mission to combat Ebola opened its headquarters on Monday in Ghana, where it will coordinate aid for the accelerating West African crisis. The spread of Ebola has spiralled into the worst ever outbreak, and the World Health Organization says...

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Even moderate drinkers face elevated breast cancer risk, study says

Even moderate drinkers face an elevated risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study from the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. (CARBC). The study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and...

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'We have to change our mindsets': Obama urges making Ebola a global priority

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa illustrates how infectious diseases can easily cross borders and needs to be a global priority, U.S. President Barack Obama says. Obama was speaking Friday at Global Health Security Agenda Summit held at the White House....

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Health websites could be overrun by commercial interests, experts fear

The integrity of the "Health Internet" used by millions of people is threatened by commercial interests, a coalition of  health policy experts argues. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the steward of internet names...

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Liberia's top doctor places herself under Ebola quarantine

Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer, is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola. Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented Liberia at regional conferences intended to combat the ongoing...

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7 things to know about the bottled vs. tap water debate

Recent reports of drugs in our drinking water might have some people heading for the bottled water aisle of their nearest grocery store, but in most parts of Canada, choosing bottled water over tap is a matter of taste or convenience, not health....

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'Disposable heroes': No compensation for paramedic with PTSD

A B.C. paramedic says the province's outdated rules mean first responders who suffer psychological trauma on the job are treated like "disposable heroes." Joanne Trofanenko was shocked when WorkSafeBC refused to compensate her when she became too...

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My son the guinea pig: How a 2-year-old supports science

My son, Rigel, is only two years old, but he's already helping scientists make new discoveries. It's not because he's a genius – he isn't. Like many kids his age, he's illiterate and not fully toilet-trained. Obviously, he's not conceiving and running...

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Ebola vaccine could be used on small scale in January, WHO says

Thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines should be available in the coming months and could eventually be given to health care workers and other people who have had contact with the sick, the World Health Organization says. No vaccine has yet...

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UN announces Ebola emergency response mission as Canada pledges $30M

The UN announced Thursday that it will dispatch an emergency mission to West Africa to help the countries most affected by the worsening Ebola epidemic deal with the crisis. Canada, meanwhile, announced it will provide another $30 million to the...

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Violence in schools can't be solved with 'knee-jerk reactions'

Schools are supposed to be safe places of learning, cushioned from the harsh realities of the outside world. But the stabbing death of 19-year-old student Hamid Aminzada at a Toronto high school on Tuesday is the most recent jolting...

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Lice aren't nice, and parents pay big to get rid of them

Legions of lice are on the march, launching school and home invasions, burrowing into young heads of hair. Meanwhile, busy parents struggle to defend their families. It takes time, expertise and patience to conquer the increasingly pesticide-resistant...

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Canadian researcher predicted to win Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

A Canadian researcher is being touted as a potential Nobel Prize winner by an organization that predicts which scientists are most likely to take home one of the coveted awards. Dr. Stephen Scherer, director of the Centre for Applied Genomics at the...

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'My face was oozing liquid'

A Vancouver dentist who was prescribed a steroid cream for a skin condition says that not only was the underlying cause of the rash misdiagnosed, he believes his body's reaction to the treatment was worse than the original problem. Vancouver dentist...

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PTSD and the ethics of erasing bad memories

Dan Campbell felt the bullets whiz past his head. The tracer rounds zipped between his legs. It was his first firefight as a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan. "I was completely frightened and scared like I'd never been before in my life," he says. As...

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