Medicine

Blood Services to recommend asking donors about sexual activity, not orientation

How Canadian researchers are using stem cell advances to transform medicine

Report on Health Care 2021

How drugs are reviewed and approved in Canada

It’s time to better support the three million Canadians with a rare disease

Pfizer says its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cuts risk of hospitalization, death by 89%

Moderna says FDA needs more time to complete review of its COVID-19 shot for adolescents

FDA approves kids’ COVID-19 vaccine in U.S., Canada likely close behind

Clinical trial finds antidepressant reduces risk of COVID-19 hospitalization

FDA panel backs Pfizer’s low-dose COVID-19 vaccine for kids

Toronto hospitals, Quebec company behind world’s first delivery of lungs by drone

Calls to Alberta’s poison-control centre spike as anti-parasitic drug pushed for COVID-19 treatment

Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to U.S. scientists for their discoveries of temperature and touch receptors

Antiviral pill effective in reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths, drugmaker says

Pfizer submits data for COVID-19 vaccine use in 5-11 year olds to U.S. FDA

U.S. vaccine advisers vote in favor of Pfizer/BioNTech shot after full approval

U.S. FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. FDA allows Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 drug to be taken without remdesivir

Lebanon is dying: Food and fuel shortages show how far and fast the country has fallen

Will Canada approve new Alzheimer’s drug? It’s not certain Aducanumab will get green light

Waiting for a second dose? We answer your COVID-19 vaccine questions

U.S. FDA approves Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, sending its shares soaring

Doctors in Calgary helping colleagues in India combat COVID-19

Doctors battling India’s COVID-19 crisis push back against yoga guru’s viral attack on modern medicine

How a bond fund manager and an occupational therapist harnessed the power of Bay Street to fund research into a rare illness

N.B. judge reserves decision on whether rights group can challenge province’s abortion law

AbCellera starts trials of treatment for COVID-19 variants, could be ready for widespread use by fall

Fully vaccinated Americans can now go outside without wearing a mask, CDC says