CBC Health Headlines

Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is leaving the post next year to return to Johns Hopkins medical school.

The Canadian Food Inspection agency is warning Toronto-area consumers about a recall of beef from the Kabul Farms retail store in North York.

A woman who is one of 11 in the past month to have been sent out of Newfoundland and Labrador for medical care because the province's hospitals couldn't handle her high-risk pregnancy says her experience was horrible.

Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder may have a higher risk of dementia than those without the stress disorder, a U.S. study suggests.

The Canadian government will not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis at this time, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says.

A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has tuberculosis and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it, scientists have found.

Mental activity such as crossword puzzles, reading or listening to the radio may slow the decline of cognitive skills initially, but speed up dementia later in old age, according to new research.

A coalition of Quebec women's groups and health professionals say they are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases among young people, and the coalition says the provincial government's education reform is to blame.

Teens who sleep less than eight hours on weeknights tend to eat more fatty foods than those who doze longer, researchers have found.

The most comprehensive study of its kind into the quality of organic food and soil has concluded organically grown strawberries are more flavourful and nutritious.

Despite new concerns about so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis, the Saskatchewan government still plans to pay for clinical trials if it gets a proposal from researchers, Health Minister Don McMorris says.

Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister wants to fund trials for a treatment for multiple sclerosis patients, despite a rejection by experts.

Bella Kitchen five-quart programmable slow cookers have been recalled because the control panel can overheat and melt, posing a fire hazard.

The City of White Rock, B.C., has lifted its 12-day-old boil water advisory, after three successive tests for E. coli bacteria came back clean earlier this week.

Health regulators in the U.S. are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year.

Environment Canada has issued a smog and humidex advisory for Toronto as temperatures remain unusually high.

Canada should not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis now, an expert group has recommended.

Have you ever used drug therapies to help you quit smoking? Do you think government drug plans should cover the costs of stop-smoking drugs?

Teenage girls who listen to personal music players too long or too loudly risk hearing loss, U.S. research indicates.

Preventive removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes can be life-saving for women with inherited mutations in two genes linked to breast cancer, a study indicates.