Tag Archives: Health

Health Minister Jim Reiter wasted little time to address emergency room concerns in the province's major hospitals by announcing 36 new beds opening at a unit at Royal University Hospital. Reiter was ...

VANCOUVER - A constitutional challenge by a doctor who argues patients should have the right to pay for private care if the public system leaves them waiting too long is expec...

NEW YORK - Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected Calif...

EDMONTON - Highlights: Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget 2020-21 Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - A $6.8 billion deficit on revenues of $50 billion. - The bud...

OTTAWA - Canada's top public-health official Theresa Tam says Canada has begun to look at surveillance for local transmission of the novel coronavirus, just as the United States co...

Canadian veterinarians are at greater risk of struggling with mental health-related issues than the general public, a recent study suggests. The study, published recently in t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for patients and doctors fighting to maintain public health care in British Columbia says a proponent for private care wants to benefit from provincial regulation of pri...

Demand, delays and inefficiencies are to blame for the ongoing struggles and capacity issues at major emergency rooms in the province. Results of a review requested by Health Minister Jim Reiter late ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - For the Democrats vying to challenge Donald Trump, growing public concern about the possible spread of the new coronavirus and the White House response couldn't have come at a bette...