Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is warning that the federal public health agency's guidelines to protect front-line health-care workers from outbreaks of diseases like the novel...

The federal government says it will evacuate Canadians quarantined aboard a cruise ship docked in Japan. They've been stuck on the Diamond Princess cruise ship for 10 days amid an outbreak of the nove...

VANCOUVER - A fifth case of the novel coronavirus has been presumptively confirmed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry says a woman in her 30s returned from Shanghai, China, in...

MUNICH - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadian health workers are assisting in Japan after 12 Canadians contracted the novel coronavirus while on a cruise ship. ...

BEIJING - More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been infected by the new virus that has killed nearly 1,400 people and spread to other parts of Asia and as far as the U.S. and Europe, a senior ...

OTTAWA - Global health law experts say dozens of countries - including the United States and Australia - are breaking international law by imposing travel restrictions during the n...

OTTAWA - The federal government has released its plan to improve support for people who are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. The plan from Health Minister Patty Hajdu charts a path for how ...

OTTAWA - Japanese authorities might soon allow people quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo, where 12 Canadians have contracted the novel coronavirus, to disembark and fi...

OTTAWA - The New Democrats are asking the provinces to support their promised universal pharmacare legislation, hoping to win premiers over by calling on Ottawa to increase federal health tr...

OTTAWA - Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of&nb...