Tag Archives: Health

ST. JOHN'S - Staff shortages forced officials to cancel routine blood collection in some parts of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital on Wednesday, according to an internal memo from the prov...

TORONTO - Katie Luciani spent years being told that her weeklong debilitating pain every month was a "normal" part of getting her period. "My symptoms showed up when I was 11," said Luciani, who is no...

MONTRAL - Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills - misinformation and disinformation about women's health are spreading like wildfire on social media apps like T...

TORONTO - Ontario's doctors have a new, four-year agreement with the province that will give them increased general compensation and see family doctors paid for administrative work, which they and the...

Quebec is now the second province after Alberta to announce it will no longer offer free doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population, starting this fall. The decision matches a similar poli...

OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...

MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...

TORONTO - Toronto Public Health says it has the results for about a quarter of the patients potentially exposed to blood-borne viruses at a downtown gynecologist's office, and that none of them contra...

TORONTO - Ontario is looking at giving several types of health professionals more authority, including allowing psychologists to prescribe anti-depressants and letting pharmacists administer strep thr...

OTTAWA - A salmonella outbreak linked to salami and cacciatore that sickened dozens of people in several provinces appears to be over. The Public Health Agency of Canada says there were 90 confirmed s...