Tag Archives: Health

HALIFAX - As Canada's premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, many of them remained consumed by climate change-...

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is now recommending one dose of HPV vaccine for children and youth between nine and 20 years old. It is maintaining its two-dose recommendation for peop...

TORONTO - Ontario is looking to expand the responsibilities of pharmacists to allow them to treat more illnesses. Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is consulting with the industry on trea...

VANCOUVER - Ottawa is providing $426 million to support heath care in British Columbia. A statement from Health Canada says $232 million will flow through an "aging with dignity agreement" to help pay...

OTTAWA - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has rolled over on plans to require dog owners crossing the border from Canada to fill out onerous paperwork this summer, the agency announced Monday. The...

WINNIPEG - Members of a northern First Nation looking to get prescriptions refilled, blood work done or access to other basic health-care services are often being turned away because of a nursing shor...

CALGARY - A brand of baby cereal is being pulled from all in-store and online retailers in Canada due to possible Cronobacter contamination. Calgary-based Baby Gourmet Foods has issued a product recal...

MONTREAL - Airports, hospitals and police services across Canada continued their gradual return to normal operations on Saturday as they recovered from a global technology outage caused by a defective...

MONTREAL - Officials in Montreal are struggling to get the public on board with the city's approach to treating people with severe addiction and homelessness, as those social crises become fodder for ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A global technology disruption spread to parts of Atlantic Canada Friday morning, affecting the government of Newfoundland and Labrador's online services and health-care information...