Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, the province's chief medical officer of health, said the hike in respiratory illnesses like ...

Popular GLP-1 medications approved for weight loss, diabetes, and heart disease may have untapped potential to reduce the ...

Fitzgerald said she is seeing more cases of walking pneumonia, a mild lung infection caused by bacteria. It's a trend she said is happening across Canada and the world. "It may be an effect of the ...

First, most of the patients whose records were used for the study were older, white and male, which is typical of the ... of infections including pneumonia, sepsis and bacterial infections.

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

Antibiotics are effective treatments for some illnesses and infections, but other times, they don't help speed up recovery ...

It is a respiratory infection that can lead to illnesses ranging from mild cold-like symptoms to more serious conditions, such as pneumonia ... a microscopic organism that replicates by invading ...