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'Intelligent' Surgical Knife Can Sniff Out Cancer Tissue

Scientists have created an intelligent surgical knife that can detect in seconds whether tissue being cut is cancerous, promising more effective and accurate surgery in future.

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Radical Remissions: 9 Ways People Have Beat Terminal Cancer

Ever heard of patients recovering from seemingly "incurable" illness? Oncology researcher Kelly Turner studied 1000 medical reports and found 9 commonalities.

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3D-Printed Pelvis Keeps Cancer Patient Walking

3D printing, in which a three-dimensional object of virtually any shape can be created from computer data, has enormous potential in the field of medicine, as one pioneering British surgeon has shown. Orthopedic surgeon Craig Gerrand used 3D printing to create a pelvis – the first of its kind – for a patient who had lost his to cancer.

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Medical Students Spearheading Change

McMaster University is one of three Ontario sites for Exercise is Medicine on Campus, an initiative aimed at connecting medical and kinesiology students, with researchers and physicians who believes that prescribing exercise to boost health and prevent disease is the way of the future.

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9-Year-Old With Swine Flu Gets Once- Impossible Kidney Transplant

A 9-year-old boy whose tiny body was ravaged by swine flu during the 2009 outbreak is recovering from a much-needed but once-impossible kidney transplant.

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Mostly Blind Montreal Man, 68, Sees For the First Time

After an accident, Pierre Paul Thomas, 68, who spent most of his life seeing only vague shadows, was treated at the Montreal General Hospital, where, during a consultation with a reconstructive plastic surgeon, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Exercise Good As Or Better Than Heart Pills

Exercise can be as good as medication for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found. A study in the British Medical Journal looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients and found moderate physical activity, for example, reducing the risk of stroke by up to 27%.

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Ebola Vaccine Trial Nearly Ready to Start

A vaccine developed by scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada is now available in enough doses to launch the first ever human safety trial of an ebola vaccine.