Science news articles about 'toronto'

... medical emergency after one passenger was found dead and several others fell ill has arrived in Toronto with officials saying there were no infectious diseases involved, just a series of unfortunate ...

Toronto is ready to start its aerial spraying campaign aimed at fighting an infestation of gypsy moths in the city.

Dr. Sheela Basrur, who became a trusted source of information through the SARS crisis in Toronto in 2003 as the medical officer of health for the City of Toronto, has died at age 51.

St. Michael's Hospital in downtown Toronto says seven patients have been infected with the bacteria C. difficile.

A bone marrow agency is stepping up its campaign to find a match for a Toronto woman of Chinese descent suffering from leukemia.

Toronto health officials say they have found the summer's first case of West Nile virus in a mosquito.

Rain is forecast to sweep across the Toronto area again on Wednesday - and Environment Canada said the city is just a few millimetres away from setting a June-July precipitation record.

The University of Toronto and IBM Corp. are building what will be Canada's most powerful supercomputer, a machine capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second.

Maple Leaf Foods is expanding a recall of its packaged meats and temporarily closing a Toronto plant that prepares the products.

In a blockbuster that the Royal Ontario Museum compares to the 1978 King Tut exhibit, the museum plans to bring the Dead Sea scrolls to Toronto next summer.

Four recent product tests at a Maple Leaf plant in Toronto have come up positive for listeria bacteria, the deli meat company at the heart of a deadly nationwide listeriosis outbreak said Wednesday.

People living in the poorest areas of Toronto also have the worst health, including higher rates of lung cancer and sexually transmitted infections, the city's medical officer of health says.

Toronto Public Health officials are warning people who recently ate at a west-end restaurant that they may have been exposed to hepatitis A.

Enbridge Inc. and FuelCell Energy have opened a power plant in Toronto that converts waste energy into electricity in what the companies are calling the first operation to pair fuel cells with an ...

Hershey's chocolates and candies recalled two years ago over salmonella fears and subsequently stolen from a recycling depot are now being sold in Toronto-area stores.