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In honour of tomorrow's World Hepatitis Day, we talked to Cheryl Dale, hepatology nurse and president of the Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses, about new breakthroughs in treatment and the resources still required to treat hepatitis C, a "silent killer" that infects an estimated one percent of Canadians.

Taking lots of acetaminophen — the active ingredient in over-the-counter medicines like Tylenol — increases your risk of getting blood cancer, a study published in yesterday's online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.

April is the Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Month, raising awareness and funds for cancer and cancer treatments. One of those treatments is stem cell transplants.

Be proactive with your health care using this expert advice on the bloodwork to ask for and how to read the results

A young man from Hong Kong has smuggled himself into Canada using an elaborate disguise, and now authorities are questioning why he wasn't spotted by airport security. Photos published by CNN show the passenger boarding a Canada-bound flight in Hong Kong as an old caucasian man, and deplaning in Vancouver as a young Asian fellow. The man was detained and his prosthetic old-man face confiscated, but now Canada's Defence Minister Peter McKay is asking questions, namely, did no one notice his supple young-man hands? (Answer: yes.)