Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - Medical officials in Ontario are reporting a fifth case of the novel coronavirus in the province. The Ministry of Health says the latest case is a woman in her 60s w...

OTTAWA - The federal government will introduce legislation today aimed at making it easier for intolerably ill Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. The bill will scrap a pr...

VICTORIA - A hospice society in British Columbia is having its funding stopped because it will not comply with the province's policy on medical assistance in dying. The Health Ministry says Fraser Hea...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...

OTTAWA - A renowned Canadian epidemiologist who led a team of experts to China to study the novel coronavirus on behalf of the World Health Organization says other countries are not ready fo...

OTTAWA - Canada's top health official has released the final 195 Canadians and their families who were brought home from Wuhan, China after two weeks of observation for the novel coronavirus...

BEIJING - Factories that make the world's smartphones, toys and other goods are struggling to reopen after a virus outbreak idled China's economy. But even with the ruling Communist Party promising he...

WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly coronavirus outbreak, whose rapid spread and threat to the global economy rocked financial marke...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The tiny island nation of Bahrain suspended flights on Tuesday to the world's busiest airport for international travel in Dubai over fears about the spread of the new vir...

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with a year earlier, but the number of fatalities is about the same as when t...