Decades after he learned to love the sport on the courts of the Greater Toronto Area, basketball agent Mike George has come home with the aim of bringing the next generation of top Canadian players to the NBA.

Hot beverage scalds are the leading cause of childhood burns but many mothers of young children may be unaware what age group is most likely to get burned, researchers say.

More Torontonians than ever are leading more isolated lives and that could have far-reaching consequences for the health and welfare of the population, especially seniors, according to the co-author of the Toronto Foundation's annual Vital Signs report.

Sportsnet has announced that former major league catcher Joe Siddall will join the Blue Jays Central broadcast as a studio analyst.

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says a new national pharmacare program will be "fiscally responsible" and designed to fill in gaps, not provide prescription drugs for Canadians already covered by existing plans.

For some mysterious reason, treatment effect can get smaller after a first clinical trial.

Danny MacKillop, from Reserve Mines, N.S., is now in rehab and says he feels a sense of purpose in his life.

The federal government's announcement in the budget of an advisory council on options to proceed with a national pharmacare program leaves many questions about how it could work. Here are some answers.

Ontario's new minister of health and long-term care faced a flurry of questions from the Opposition on Tuesday, including queries about an ongoing lawsuit filed by home care providers against the provincial government.

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rejected Dr. Gabrielle Horne's appeal and reduced the damages awarded to her to $800,000 from $1.4 million.

Medical specialists in Quebec are gearing up to split $500 million among themselves, a raise they negotiated with the government earlier this month. But some doctors say they want the pay hike to be cancelled and the money spent on patient care and resources for their underpaid and overworked colleagues.

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman has undergone an MRI exam that revealed inflammation in his throwing shoulder.

Nova Scotia has launched a program to help pay for high deductibles and co-payments for cancer patients who take medication for their illness outside of hospital settings.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivers his third federal budget today. It is a spending plan designed to promote gender equality, improve living conditions for Indigenous people and fortify Canada against cyber-hacks and attacks.

DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry each had 20 points as the Toronto Raptors beat the Detroit Pistons 123-94 at Air Canada Centre on Monday night.

Free agent reliever Seung-Hwan Oh and the Toronto Blue Jays have finalized a one-year contract with a 2018 salary of $1.75 million US.

Ontario MPP Eric Hoskins has resigned as health minister to chair a federal government advisory council with a goal of creating a national pharmacare plan.

Drug distributors "knew the amount of opioids allowed to flow into Ohio far exceeded what could be consumed for medically necessary purposes, but they did nothing to stop it," Ohio Attorney General says.

Eric Hoskins, Ontario's Health Minister, announced Monday he is resigning his post and won't be seeking re-election in 2018.

A sizable number of young people under 18 engage in sexting, the practice of electronically sharing sexually explicit material, with an estimated one in seven sending sexts and one in four receiving them, a U.S. study suggests.

A review of more than 1,200 child welfare cases spanning 25 years has found that a now-discredited hair analysis program in Toronto that tested for drug and alcohol use caused extensive — and potentially irreversible — harm to vulnerable families across Ontario.

Figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are among the Olympians expected to return home, bringing two sets of gold medals with them. The pair, who captured international attention at the Pyeongchang Games, is scheduled to land in London, Ont., Monday evening.

A Sudbury, Ont. man who was placed for 10 days in a hospital bathroom as a patient is calling for more hospital beds.

The TDSB's move to allow naloxone kits in its high schools is prompting a call to train teachers on how to administer a powerful hormone that can save students suffering from extreme low blood sugar.

Aside from Tessa and Scott, Cassie Sharpe and Samuel Girard, one of the biggest breakout stars of the Pyeongchang Olympics might just be a sport—curling. Yes, it's true. The sport once considered to some to be more recreational than athletic, has experienced a new wave of interest which not only produced a rise in competition attendance during the Games but also famously gained a high profile endorsement from former WWE star Mr. T.

The amazing moments for Canadian skating just kept coming in Pyeongchang over the course of the last two weeks. In an unprecedented showing at the Winter Games, Canadians brought home medals in four of the five events, including two gold and two bronze.

The mixed-doubles gold was a great start, but Canadian curling leaves Pyeongchang with a bad taste in its mouth, and questions to answer, after Rachel Homan's and Kevin Koe's teams failed to reach the podium.

Both infants and their parents do better when mom and dad work at the bedside in intensive care to help newborns recover.

​Adults who survived childhood cancer are more at a higher risk of poor mental health outcomes, Canadian oncologists say in a new study.

The federal prison watchdog is urging more "compassionate" parole options and a ban on medically assisted death behind bars as Canada's prison system manages an increasingly sick, mentally ill and elderly inmate population.

Government efforts to boost South Korea's flagging birth rate have had little effect in a country where social and economic issues leave many women reluctant to have children.

The Minnesota Timberwolves say Jimmy Butler has had an MRI that revealed a meniscal injury to his right knee.

That deep vein thrombosis risk you've heard about on long flights? It can also happen after binge watching TV, researchers say.

American skip John Shuster's rink won the U.S. its first-ever Olympic curling gold medal Saturday in South Korea.

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a team-high 26 points and added 12 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks hung on to defeat the Toronto Raptors 122-119 in overtime on Friday.

After being denied coverage for his depression, Samuel Archibald received a call from UQAM's group insurance company, Desjardins, on Thursday morning informing him that they had reviewed his file and accepted his claim.

Elite elders are more than just an oddity. There's potential for learning an enormous amount and applying it to the rest of us, including those who may be on a trajectory for some type of neurodegenerative disease, researchers say.

A CBC News analysis has found Nova Scotia doctors are leaving for other provinces at an accelerating pace, and stemming the outflow could cost tens of millions in salary increases.

South Korea secured its first Olympic curling medal with a nail-biting 8-7 extra-ends win over arch-rivals Japan in the women's semifinals on Friday to set up a showdown with Sweden, who will play for gold for the fourth straight Winter Games.

A Syrian refugee family that travelled for years through refugee camps in Lebanon and Turkey before arriving in Leamington, Ont. is searching for answers after their five-year-old son died following a routine procedure at Windsor Regional Hospital.

A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press a proposal collapsed that would have had a runner on second base at the start of 10th innings in spring training games.

Canada's appalling record on Indigenous health is undermining its efforts to be a global health leader.

A day after their semifinal defeat to the United States, Koe and his Calgary rink lost Friday's Olympic bronze-medal game 7-5 to Switzerland, meaning Canada will leave the Winter Olympics without a medal in traditional curling for the first time ever.

​For the first time ever, Canada's men's curling team is leaving an Olympic Games without a medal. Canada fell to Switzerland 7-5 in the bronze-medal match Friday in South Korea.

There’s public science in every single new drug. That was the surprising answer to a U.S. senator’s question about how government-funded research is benefitting citizens. But it took a year to come up with the numbers.

Olympic Athlete from Russia Alina Zagitova took home gold, but according to CBC Sports figure skating expert Pj Kwong, it was Canadian bronze medallist Kaetlyn Osmond who was the star of the show.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is set to join the New York Yankees' spring training camp on Monday.

Jameson Taillon's focus from nearly the moment he received his cancer diagnosis in early May was to return to the mound as quickly as possible. Just five weeks later, he was activated from the disabled list and pitched five scoreless innings to beat the visiting Colorado Rockies.

Exactly 38 years to the day that the American men's hockey team stunned the Soviet Union, U.S. skip John Shuster pulled off a lesser, but still startling, upset to knock Canada out of title contention at the Winter Olympics.

The amount of foods containing sugars or other carbohydrates that a woman eats has nothing to do with whether she will start experiencing premenstrual syndrome (PMS), researchers say.