Two more people have died from listeriosis in Ontario, raising to three the number of deaths from the food-borne listeria bacteria in Canada.

In a press conference Friday, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed that a woman who lived in a retirement home in St. Catharines died in July from the bacterial infection and an elderly woman in Waterloo met the same fate. The first recorded listeriosis fatality was a woman from Hamilton

August is Psoriasis Awareness month and National Institutes of Health scientists say that as many as 7.5 million Americans suffer from the skin condition that occurs about equally in women and men.

Psoriasis is a chronic disease of the immune system that affects the skin, and a person's skin is the bodies' largest organ

Studies keeping track of the progress of two patients who had face transplants show the surgeries had positive results, with one of them managing a smile and a blink.

The Lancet journal reported operations involving a bear attack victim in China, and a French patient with a severely disfiguring tumor. The Chinese patient was given not just the lip, nose, skin and muscle from a donor, but even some facial bone

Eating roast beef and corned beef with Maple Leaf Consumer Foods labels may be dangerous to your health, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIC) warned Monday.

One-kilogram packages of Sure Slice Roast Beef with a best-before date of Aug. 9 and Sure Slice Corned Beef with an expiration date of Aug. 23 have already been recalled by Maple Leaf from restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes, but the CFIC is taking extra precautions with its alert after listeria bacteria was found in the meat products

Scientists are aiming to develop a vaccine which could suppress the effects of rheumatoid arthritis using patients' own blood cells.

A team from Newcastle University said the treatment involves cells being taken from the patient before being altered and injected back into the affected joint. The process changes human cells to suppress rather than activate the immune system