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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.

A B.C. group has filed complaints against major retailers for refusing to provide labels that allow blind people to hear information with the use of a special device.

Canada should ban two antibacterial chemicals used in a host of consumer products and accumulating in the waters of the Great Lakes, a report said.

TORONTO - Many seniors living in long-term care facilities could and probably should be put on shorter courses of antibiotics when they have bacterial infections, a new study suggests.

TORONTO - Many seniors living in long-term care facilities could and probably should be put on shorter courses of antibiotics when they have bacterial infections, a new study suggests.

An engineering research team from Simon Fraser University is working on a life-and-death puzzle.

It's a chemical that's been in U.S. households for more than 40 years, from the body wash in your bathroom shower to the knives on your kitchen counter to the bedding in your baby's basinet.

Syrian troops advanced toward the centre of the strategic town of Qusair near the border with Lebanon and chased rebels from another key district on the edge of Damascus Tuesday, officials said, solidifying recent gains that have shifted the balance of power in the regime's favour in recent weeks.

QUEBEC - The Quebec government has ordered a public inquiry into an outbreak of legionnaires' disease that has killed nine people.

NEW DELHI - Shammo Khan walks into a dusty courtyard that reeks of garbage, searching for the fingerprint of a man exhausted by HIV, drug withdrawal and the tuberculosis lesions hijacking his lungs.

NEW DELHI - Shammo Khan walks into a dusty courtyard that reeks of garbage, searching for the fingerprint of a man exhausted by HIV, drug withdrawal and the tuberculosis lesions hijacking his lungs.

TORONTO - Doctors struggling to cure patients with C. difficile diarrhea have a new weapon in their armoury.

YELLOWKNIFE - Northern health officials are growing increasingly concerned as infection rates from a dangerous superbug continue to rise.