Canadian kids and teens are bombarded by advertising for food and beverages in movies, video games, apps and social media — and that needs to stop, according to a new report.

The Toronto Blue Jays have reportedly landed free-agent left-handed reliever J.P. Howell.

DeMar DeRozan's sprained ankle will sideline him for another two games.

At least 47 people in B.C. have now been diagnosed with Zika after traveling to areas with the mosquito-borne illness including Mexico and parts of Central and South America.

President Donald Trump says he wants to lower drug prices and bring pharmaceutical companies back to the United States.

Manitoba skip Jennifer Jones is as determined as ever to achieve her ultimate goal in 2017 after failing to qualify for next month's Scotties Tournament of Hearts. "It's about performing well in December," at the 2018 Olympic curling trials in Ottawa.

With Canadians ranking as the second highest users per capita of opioids in the world, a team of doctors is recommending doctors use greater caution and lower prescription doses.

A record number of families consented to donate their loved ones' organs in Ontario last year, leading to a record number of organ transplants, according to figures released Tuesday by the Trillium Gift of Life Network.

Prince Edward Island has signed on to Ottawa's health care deal, allowing the province to access federal dollars for home care and mental health.

LeBron James is done bowing to Sir Charles. After he was criticized by Charles Barkley for questioning Cleveland's front office, James tore into the former NBA star and opinionated TV commentator on Monday night following a loss in Dallas.

A Toronto-area MP is advocating the decriminalization and eventual legalization of all drugs.

Nursing students and schools are sounding the alarm on what they see as an "Americanization" of Canadian university nursing curriculum. Some say an American-style exam could end up sending more nurses south of the border.

Moderate snowfalls were linked to an increase in hospital admissions for heart attacks and other cardiovascular illnesses, not heavy snowfalls, Boston team finds.

This year’s flu season may have already peaked, but that doesn't mean it is over

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowly slammed American President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order to close U.S. borders to people from seven Muslim-majority countries after Monday's practice.

Brazil’s yellow fever outbreak now has more than 100 cases, authorities say.

Major League Baseball has ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this year's amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million US as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database.

An Antigonish woman who lost her son to suicide has launched a program to help others struggling with mental health problems.

You doctor may know very little about managing obesity or nutrition. I’d ask a registered dietician or a health coach instead.

Alberta doctors are worried the provincial government wants to limit the number of physicians allowed to practice medicine in the province.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons was in court Friday to keep tattoo artist Zhuo Li, also known as Sabrina Li, from practising plastic surgery. New documents were disclosed outlining what investigators saw and seized when they raided her Delta home in December.

A new study says inadequate suicide data and tracking in Saskatchewan is skewing rates and prohibiting effective suicide prevention strategies from being developed.

The Canadian women's curling championship will not include perennial favourite Jennifer Jones. The five-time national champion lost a playoff game in the Manitoba provincial playdowns Sunday in Winnipeg. Jones fell 8-6 in the semifinal to Darcy Robinson, who lost to Michelle Englot 8-6 in the final.

Kyle Lowry led the Raptors with 33 points and DeMar DeRozan added 22 in Toronto's 114-113 loss to the Orlando Magic.

A handful of peer mentors and researchers have been enlisted by public health officials and a network of more than 30 local health organizations to figure out the barriers to birthing and raising healthy babies in the city.

Second Opinion is a vital dose of the week's news in health and medicine from reporter Kelly Crowe and CBC Health.

It's exam time for high school students on Prince Edward Island, and that can be stressful — for the students and for everyone around them. Here are six tips to get through it.

29 years after the 'abortion pill' debuted in Europe, the drug combination known as, Mifegymiso, is finally available in Canada. Though the distributor says it's received just three orders for the medication so far.

Most people want to get out of the grocery store checkout line as quickly as possible,. But for some, that need for speed can cause problems and even serious distress. Is it time for a special lane for folks who can't or simply don't want to move as quickly?

One night after Kyle Lowry was named to his third consecutive NBA all-star team, the Toronto Raptors guard proved why.

Veteran paramedic Brian Twaites has his own way of coping with the unrelenting volume of drug traumatic overdose calls in B.C.

A substance found in burnt toast and fries that could be hazardous to our health continues to be monitored by Health Canada.

Roberto Osuna was named the 2016 recipient of National Sports Award, handed out annually by Mexico's National Commission for Sport. The Blue Jays right-hander was presented the award by Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto at a ceremony Tuesday in Mexico City.

The destruction caused by the Fort McMurray wildfires is still being felt by those who lived through it, and the damage runs deep for evacuees haunted by the disaster.

Regina will host a Grand Slam curling event in September, bringing 60 curling teams to the city for the first event of the upcoming season.

Toronto all-star guard DeMar DeRozan will miss a third straight game with a right ankle sprain when the Raptors host the Milwaukee Bucks tonight.

An American basketball player's eye popped out of its socket after he was poked in the face while going for a rebound during a game in New Zealand.

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a little-known, poorly understood condition. But if not treated early enough, it can result in permanent deafness.

Kyle Lowry will be joining his pal DeMar DeRozan for the NBA all-star festivities in New Orleans next month.

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Aaron Sanchez will be on the Canadian cover of Playstation's MLB The Show 17, following Jose Bautista, Brett Lawrie and Russell Martin. Josh Donaldson was on the American and Canadian versions of the 2016 game.

Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs inside animals to transplant into people.

Brazil's Ministry of Health has ordered 11.5 million doses of yellow fever vaccines to reinforce its stockpiles amid outbreak that includes 40 deaths.

Cleveland has hosted the game five previous times in 1935, 1954, 1963 and 1981 at Municipal Stadium, which was torn down in the 1990s. The last time Cleveland held the showcase event at Progressive Field was 1997, when Indians catcher Sandy Alomar was named Most Valuable Player.

Kenrick Bogle has been in a Jamaican hospital for his whole life. The four-year-old, unable to eat or breathe normally, is expected to have surgery at SickKids Hospital.

Canadian researchers are looking into how VR can be prescribed to seniors to rehabilitate them from things like strokes, treat depression, dementia and anxiety, and serve as an escape from their hospital or hospice beds.

Specialized physiotherapy exercises can help teenagers with scoliosis, a painful curvature of the spine, a randomized trial in Alberta shows.

UPEI student Ketan Dulal was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his 20s while completing his undergrad in Germany. He's thankful the diagnosis happened there and not in his home country of Nepal, where families try to hide mental illness for fear of being shunned.

Marc Gasol scored a career-high 42 points, including the deciding two free throws with 36 seconds left, as the Memphis Grizzlies sent Toronto to its fifth straight loss with a 101-99 victory over the Raptors on Wednesday night.

A Manitoba man is calling for the province to pay $118,000 in medical bills for emergency heart surgery he says he was forced to get in the U.S. as he waited for the province to airlift him to a Winnipeg hospital.

An anonymous donor is pledging $380,000 for a plan to prevent more young people from dying by suicide on Wapekeka First Nation in northern Ontario, after Health Canada denied funding last summer.