Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province's auditor general concluded in a spec...

VANCOUVER - Members of British Columbia's nurses union have voted overwhelmingly to strike, with union president Adriane Gear raising the prospect of a dispute while "the whole world is watching us" d...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, Spain's health ministry announced Tues...

Health experts say it's not clear whether it's useful to test people who may have been exposed to hantavirus but don't have symptoms. Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia's provincial health officer, sa...

TORONTO - Ontario's ministry of health is asking seven more people to isolate in relation to a global hantavirus outbreak, though it says those individuals are considered "low-risk" contacts. Jackson ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, m...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan is expanding the critical care ward in its largest hospital, but the union representing nurses wants to know who will be staffing. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said Monday ...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is spending more than $250 million on preventive health care over the next five years in a bid to reduce illness and stave off rising costs. The government says the mo...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three passengers dead and sickened others, but global health officials say the risk ...

Work to expand the adult intensive-care unit at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon will get underway this week. The project, which comes with a $17 million price tag, will expand the number of bed...