Kristin Rushowy
A handful of parents is questioning a plan by Toronto's public board to put a vending machine in an elementary school, charging students 50 cents for water refills...
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Bob Weber
An Alberta judge has given the parents of a brain-damaged infant more time to consult medical experts to review whether their son should be unhooked from life...
Theresa Boyle
Stephanie Atwood's first day of high school is a painful memory. The teen, who became obese after surgery to remove a brain tumour, cringes as she recalls the...
Joseph Hall
It is among the most cruel and inexplicable calamities in medicine – the death of an infant during its peaceful sleep.
Two Inuit leaders say Prime Minister Stephen Harper should look to the Arctic if he wants to improve the health of newborn children.
Leslie Ferenc
Schools in some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods may soon house pediatric clinics providing much-needed medical care for elementary students, some of whom have...
A Chinese toddler is lucky to be alive after a chopstick became stuck in his nose.
Noor Javed
Gone are the chemical-leaking plastic bottles. Ever present are the bacteria-killing wet wipes. New parents, more than anyone, are obsessive about protecting their...
Francine Kopun
Adrienne Rosen and her partner have set what Rosen calls a limp bedtime for their teenage daughters.
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Robert Cribb
Five year olds instinctively master an oral care technique called the 29-second brushing. They insert bristles into mouth, do a couple of quick swirls around the...
The practice of routinely prescribing antibiotics to kids suffering from an ear infection is coming to a formal end.
A new report card from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario says the province's children score an F for their consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Sidhartha Banerjee
In what surgeons believe could be a Canadian medical first, a toddler had a tumour removed from his face using a procedure that allows him to avoid living the rest...