Health News

More vaccine doses are being stockpiled in case an outbreak of whooping cough in the eastern Fraser Valley spreads further west.

FRIDAY, Feb. 3 -- A series of specific "yes" or "no" questions could help doctors distinguish between people who have normal memory loss that comes with age and those with a condition known as amnestic mild cognitive impairment, according to a new study.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood.

This map released by the Yale School of Public Health on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 shows a map which indicates areas of the eastern United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease based on data from 2004-2007. Researchers dragged sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks for the survey.

Tax laws are so complex many taxpayers don't feel comfortable filing out their own returns, but getting professional help can be expensive.

Viggo Mortensen has admitted he had to get used to chain-smoking cigars on the set of A Dangerous Method.

In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 photo, J.T. Gaskins, 17, sits in his home in Burton, Mich.

The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to contain a growing election-year outcry over its decision that church-affiliated employers must cover birth control regardless of their religious principles.

A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.

How do you feel on Sunday night after working all weekend in your yard or after doing a marathon of home repair or house cleaning? As if you'd rather not move for hours, right? Move more - now: Even though you might want to flop onto the coach, cold drink in hand, first move a little more.

Watermelons may be the source of a salmonella outbreak across the UK which has affected 35 people, leading to one death.

THURSDAY, Feb. 2 -- The amount of sunlight you are exposed to might play a part in determining your stroke risk, new research suggests.

Planned Parenthood reported on Wednesday raising $400,000 in the 24 hours following its announcement that a major backer, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, was ending its partnership with the group.

The measure's sponsor says the idea is to safeguard youngsters from secondhand smoke.

It's no secret that alcohol has numerous effects on your brain - beyond creating the illusion that you are the most interesting and attractive person in the room.

In the English county of Lincolnshire, a parent set off a nutritional firestorm in the local school system when she sent her child to school with a Smartie sandwich for lunch .

As a Canadian, I can assure you that I've seen my fair share of winters.A Though I appreciate the change in seasons as much as anyone, the one thing I don't appreciate or look forward to is suffering from the symptoms of the common cold .

In a throwback to the 60s, psychedelic mushrooms may give hope to depression sufferers, as 2 minor MRI brain imaging studies hint that psilocybin, the magic in mushrooms, affects our brains for good.

Finding cancerous cells and tumors is relatively easy. Knowing how best to treat them is very difficult.

The massive electricity outage that occurred in New York state and Canada in 2003 caused far more deaths than the official estimate of 6 as initially thought at the time.