Tag Archives: Health

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has ordered a regional health authority to cut the amount of money its spends on private-agency nurses by 15 per cent by March of next year. Premier Wab Kinew says P...

Canada's top doctor says she is concerned about measles outbreaks with a growing number of cases acquired locally and spreading in Ontario and Quebec. Dr. Theresa Tam says the majority of recent infec...

HALIFAX - Three hospital employees were injured in what Nova Scotia's health minister says was an armed assault by a patient Wednesday afternoon at the Halifax Infirmary emergency department. Halifax ...

OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are urging the Liberal government to move quickly to complete expansion of the dental care program and start signing deals with the provinces and territories to begi...

VANCOUVER - A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health care system must pay the B.C. government's legal costs, after what a judge calls a...

A national group that helps people who have trouble accessing abortion services says it may be forced to shut down in several months after Health Canada declined to renew its funding for the upcoming ...

MONTREAL - The death of a man in his 60s from a carbon monoxide leak south of Montreal highlights the dangers of the potentially deadly gas, a clinical toxicologist said Tuesday as the Quebec coroner'...

It's a difficult task to predict the future, but that's exactly what the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization is aiming to do. The Saskatoon-based organization recently received a $24 million g...

TORONTO - A historic proposal that would see three major tobacco companies pay out billions to provinces and territories as well as former smokers across Canada is set to face its final test over the ...

An Ontario court has dismissed a Charter challenge of a controversial law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients into nursing homes they didn't choose and charge those who refuse the trans...