Preventable

Canada's women's team has high hopes for success in the FIFA World Cup tournament, coming off an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021. Among the challenges faced by female athletes like these, in addition…

The pesky forehead wrinkles people pay thousands of dollars to reverse as they get older may not be from aging at all.Doctors say they are often caused by a preventable medical condition that, when fixed, could let you ditch that expensive …

Rates of school discipline fluctuate widely and predictably throughout a school year and increase significantly faster for Black students than for their white counterparts, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found. A new…

This follows a two-day meeting in Barbados hosted by the Government, WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which concluded on Wednesday.  Over half of all people living in small island countries are dying prematurely from…

In 2021, an estimated five million boys and girls died before their fifth birthday together with some 2.1 million counterparts aged between five and 24 years, according to the latest estimates by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for…

Diarrhea is no longer the killer it was in the mid-20th century, when an estimated 4.5 million children under age 5 died of it every year. While lifesaving oral rehydration therapy turned the tide, it doesn't prevent infection. Millions of…

“There are 5.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Tigray; that number includes 3.8 million people who are in need of health assistance and we need to reach these people,” said Ilham Abdelhai Nour, World Health Organization…

WARNING: This story contains a graphic photo and disturbing detailsKelly O'Leary can't shake the feeling that the excruciating pain of her father's death could have been prevented. Ken O'Leary, 87, of Burlington, Ont., died last February…

Cancer can happen almost anywhere in the human body. In normal conditions, cells in the body grow and multiply to form new cells as the body demands it. When human cells become old or damaged, they die and the formation of new cells takes…

Fast food, alcohol and too much exposure to the sun contribute to around 400 preventable cancer cases a day in the UK, experts warn today.They estimate that about 155,000 diagnoses could be prevented each year if Britons led healthier…