A recent study out of Laval University finds many foods that are high in sodium and sugar on Canadian shelves are much cheaper than healthier, equivalent options.
New U.S. recommendations aim to discourage pregnant women from taking the painkiller paracetamol to prevent autism. They also advise using the drug leucovorin to treat speech-related difficulties that children with autism sometimes experience.
Researchers at McGill University say they developed an artificial intelligence platform that can predict when someone is about to come down with a respiratory tract infection before they start to feel sick.
Alcohol consumption will continue to be commonplace and ‘acceptable’ for decades to come. As physicians, we need to understand the complexity of our society, and why patients make the decisions they do.
A new survey has found that healthcare providers are spending the equivalent of nearly an entire day per week managing the impact of health misinformation.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
In 2021, roughly six per cent of the world’s population, or 529 million people, were living with diabetes, mostly Type 2 diabetes (T2D). In the same year, 1.6 million deaths were attributed to this disease.
