Healthcare

We've all heard plenty about the danger of Dr. Google—but YouTube Health is another story, with healthcare professionals signing up to help combat misinformation online.

‘I didn’t study pharmacy to be pressured into sales.’

When the bird flu known as H5N1 was first detected in U.S. dairy cows earlier this year, there were no studies of whether heat treatment killed the virus in cows milk.

Alfred Handley leaned back in his wheelchair alongside a major Phoenix freeway as a street medicine team helped him get rehydrated with an intravenous saline solution dripping from a bag hanging on a pole.

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From voice diagnostics to robotic surgery, technology is changing the face of medicine.

Never burn poison ivy, because the smoke would contain toxins that could be fatal if inhaled.

Health Minister Michelle Thompson says the new service is the result of a successful $2-million pilot project earlier this year involving 15 family doctors and seven nurse practitioners at six clinics.