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Dr. Stuart Turvey said there have been other treatments for chronic granulomatous disease, involving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, but only with an optimal donor.

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Experts say drug-resistant 'super lice' are becoming more common, frustrating families and prompting reminders about early detection, proper treatment and school procedures.

There's been 12 tuberculosis cases in 2025 linked to Edmonton's inner city and homeless population, which Alberta health officials say is a significant increase over past years.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved GSK's drug for a common type of urinary tract infection (UTI) in women and adolescent girls.

A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton are enlisting an unexpected army: ants, bees and beetles.

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection of Tom's of Maine's manufacturing facility uncovered significant violations, including bacterial contamination in the water.

Using Canada’s only synchrotron here in Saskatoon, researchers from the University of Toronto have developed a new way of fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is warning B.C. poultry farmers and veterinarians to stop using a bovine antibiotic on chickens. <br /><br />

QUEBEC - Liberal Leader Jean Charest is promising that his party will assume whatever responsibility it has to in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease that has killed eight people.

An outbreak of syphilis among California porn performers is perhaps not surprising, given the nature of their business. But the sexually transmitted disease isn't a threat only to the adult entertainment industry: there's a resurgence of syphilis worldwide — and Canada is no exception.

HONG KONG - Hong Kong authorities said one woman has died and three others have been hospitalized after a beauty treatment involving blood transfusions.

TORONTO - The way Susan Dunn sees it, there is no ick factor involved in the unconventional treatment that cured her of C. difficile, an infection that had made her life a living hell for nine months.

Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.

A study from the DeGroote Institute and University of Hamburg may have stumbled on a new antimalarial compound.

TORONTO - Hospital emergency rooms can cure what ails an elderly person, but they can also send them home with an unwanted souvenir of their visit.

TORONTO - Hospital emergency rooms can cure what ails an elderly person, but they can also send them home with an unwanted souvenir of their visit.

The Association of Ontario Midwives is leading a social media campaign urging the province to fund a birth centre pilot project.

TORONTO - Outbreaks in two Toronto-area hospitals of a dangerous new form of superbug has infection control experts contemplating a worrisome future.