Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it will consult with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions on its next set of guidelines for protecting health-care workers against the novel corona...

Courtney McCann was used to giving lectures in her classroom, not receiving them at her local convenience store. But the sight of her ill-fitting mask turned the tables as she was browsing the near-de...

Public health officials say 14 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have been diagnosed in Canada so far, with seven cases reported in Ontario and seven in British Columbi...

TORONTO - Ontario health officials say the province now has a seventh confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. The chief medical officer of health says the newest patient is a man in his 50s who had t...

KAMPALA, Uganda - She wakes every day long before dawn to chat with her three stranded daughters on the other side of the world in China's locked-down city of Wuhan, anxious to see they have started a...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Democratic White House hopefuls are seizing on President Donald Trump's delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it the latest evidence of his incompetence and warning ...

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...