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Canada's Chief Public Health Officer has plenty to say on the hot topic of whether, when, and how you should be doing the deed during this period of pandemic.

It's a good idea to simply pop a face mask on. But if you need more convincing, here's another reason.

After several months of adjusting to disrupted routines, so many of us have resigned ourselves to sleepless nights that there's now a name for the phenomenon: coronasomnia.

While it seems we learn something new about the physical effects of COVID-19 every day, the impact on our mental health is starting to emerge as well — and it's not so great.

If you're tempted to trade in your cloth mask for a fancy one with a valve or even a face shield, you may want to reconsider.

Certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, require ongoing medical involvement in order to monitor their status, and that is another area in which telehealth is likely to play an increasingly large role.

By springtime, new coronavirus symptoms started showing up in doctor's offices nationwide, symptoms including chills, shaking, muscle aches, headaches, sore throats, loss of taste or smell, blood clots, and even a weird skin condition resembling frostbite present on the feet and fingers.

With this year's pandemic, routine vaccines might be the last things on our minds. There may be an easier way to get them, though.

Have you ever been out and about and seen people wearing face masks, but they're not exactly wearing those masks as they were meant to be worn? What we're talking about here, though, is people who seem to think that they are fully masked when their masks are only covering their mouths.

Despite the fact that Chadwick Boseman had been seen to have lost a significant amount of weight over the past few months, it seems nobody really knew he was sick. Once the news came out, the shock diminished not one bit when it was revealed that he'd been suffering from colon cancer.

While no cases of babies contracting coronavirus via breastmilk have been recorded, it's understandable that mothers are particularly worried about accidentally spreading to the infection to their newborns.

One such tip is that presented by a TikToker who suggests a budget-friendly teeth-whitening hack. Instead of using the expensive store-bought kits, she suggests just applying regular old 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to a cotton swab and running it across your teeth. Should you, though?

The total number of Americans who have died after being infected with COVID-19 continues to climb as of an August 26 report.

In truth, sneezing is one of several symptoms of allergies that can seem like it's also a COVID-19 symptom. How can you tell the difference?

A collective sense of enthrallment is what makes going to the movies — as opposed to binging Netflix at home, alone — so special. But according to experts, it's also what makes the movie theater the ideal environment to transmit coronavirus.

To try to prevent the serious, life-threatening consequences of ingesting hand sanitizer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to avoid certain types of the product that look like they are in food and beverage containers, and sometimes are scented with fruit flavors.

As if things weren't bad enough, now word comes in that Florida will soon be releasing millions of genetically-engineered mosquitoes. In fact, 750 million of them over the next couple of years.

Here's a change in recommendations that may surprise you from the CDC.

Once again, Walmart is poised to be at the forefront of a change, one that will be welcomed by all breastfeeding parents. According to ABC News, they are the first retailer in the nation to install lactation suites in-store.

The 2020/2021 flu season may well be one of the worst in modern memory due hospitals housing both flu victims and those suffering from COVID-19.

One thing that could return us to life as we knew last February would be a vaccine to protect against COVID-19, which is still a work in progress.

Wearing a face mask sounds easy enough until you head to the local park for an outdoor yoga class and it's 90 degrees in August.

With family and friends off-limits because of fear of coronavirus transmission, you are now each others' everything. So whyyyyyyyy would you rather have a thousand COVID-19 swabs inserted into your nasal cavity than be intimate right now?