Health

Homelessness is increasing in pregnant and parenting people in Canada, posing health risks to children. Authors of a commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal argue it is a health crisis that needs urgent attention.

Want to reduce your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?

Health officials want you to think twice before buying one of those brightly colored little bottles often sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops.

Tooth disorders accounted for an annual average of 1,944,000 emergency department visits during 2020 to 2022, according to a June data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Earned sick leave—short-term, paid time off for employees who are sick or injured or must care for sick or injured family members—has been found to reduce the spread of infectious diseases in the workplace and increase employee access to preventive care.

Festival season can be surprisingly physically demanding. Hours spent standing, walking or dancing can put extra strain on the heart, especially for those with preexisting conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, explains Gosia Wamil, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London.

Tobacco use in a variety of forms is common in adolescent life today, with over 2.25 million youth using.

In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language are less likely to die by suicide. In Australia’s Northern Territory, community-led language initiatives are linked to better mental health outcomes.

Contrary to expectations, the COVID pandemic did not cause a spike in the overall use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Europe: the growth was modest, from 27% in 2014 to 28% in 2023. These University of Helsinki findings are reported in an article published in the Journal of Public Health.

Mail-in self-collection tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) more than doubled cervical cancer screening participation among never- and under-screened U.S. women, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.