Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more surgeries are being performed than before the pandemic - but wait times have still grown longer. The report released Thursday looked a...

Seven people have been hospitalized after eating salami recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. The Public Health Agency of Canada released a notice Wednesday stating that 57 people - 44 in...

TORONTO - Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s firing of an immunization advisory committee south of the border could bolster anti-vaccine sentiment in Canada. Angela Rasmussen,...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia physicians and other sexual health experts who are calling on the provincial government to fund birth control and increase access to an HIV-prevention medication say the move wou...

MONTREAL - The criminal case against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller came to a halt on Tuesday as a Quebec Superior Court judge stayed sex-related charges against him. Justice Lyne Dcarie announced...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. "Dissent," he said, "is the v...

TORONTO - Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who...

British Columbia has launched a six-week, $5-million campaign of targeted advertisements to recruit doctors and nurses in the United States, citing "chaos" under the Trump administration to lure them ...

TORONTO - Public health doctors say if people don't know if they've been vaccinated against measles, they should get a shot. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, says people should t...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say a man detained in a vehicle ramming at the city's Pacific Coliseum on Thursday night had "religious delusions" and had been the subject of a 911 call earlier that day ...