Tag Archives: Health

A chartered plane carrying Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China is scheduled to depart Thursday. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the flight w...

A cruise ship carrying 251 Canadians has been quarantined off the coast of Japan following a confirmed outbreak of the new coronavirus on-board. A statement from Princess Cruises says 10&nbs...

WASHINGTON - Hyundai Motors is suspending production in South Korea, a sign that the economic fallout from China's viral outbreak is spreading. For other companies bracing for losses from coronavirus,...

TORONTO - Health officials in British Columbia believe there is a new case of the novel coronavirus in the province and are waiting for results to be confirmed by the National Microbiology L...

Hundreds of Canadians stranded in Wuhan, China - the epicentre of the global novel coronavirus outbreak - will soon be back in Canada, but under unusual conditions. Invoking powers...

VANCOUVER - There has been a new presumptive confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in British Columbia. B.C. health officials says the latest case is a woman in her 50s who lives in the Va...

WINNIPEG - The former scientific director of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory who recently had experimental brain surgery to battle alcoholism has died. The University of Manitoba confirmed t...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Prosecutors say there have been "critical developments" in the rape and kidnapping case against a California orthopedic surgeon who appeared in a reality TV dating show. Orange Cou...

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says the province's new coronavirus investigations seem to be tapering off. Dr. David Williams says while many cases have developed between seven and nine day...

BEIJING - Hong Kong hospitals cut services as thousands of medical workers went on strike for a second day Tuesday to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely, as a new virus caused it...