Category: Health

A physician says patient overcrowding at Winnipeg's Grace Hospital's emergency department is a "catastrophe."Dr. Doug Eyolfson says Grace's ER was built to handle 30 active patients, but that number surged...

A measles outbreak in New Brunswick is set to push Canada's annual case count to the highest it's been in five years, highlighting how infectious the disease is and how low vaccination rates have...

A recent inspection of a Tom's of Maine facility found that the company's toothpaste was made using bacteria-tained water, among other serious health violations, according to the U.S. Food and...

A team of scientists, including one in Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence that the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans, rather than originating from a laboratory leak. The analysis of...

For the first time, Nova Scotia Health has a program in place providing gender-affirming chest masculinization and feminization surgeries.The health authority did not previously have a dedicated program for these kinds of procedures —...

Every time they walk by the bedroom of their 30-year-old daughter, Shavonne, at their home in Westville, N.S., Wesley and Sheila Lees feel heartbreak from her loss and the way she died.The...

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services human resources vice-president Debbie Molloy, left, and interim CEO Karen Stone, say employees who had leases with agency or international nurses felt they had exception...

Premier Susan Holt says her government will launch a transparent scientific investigation by early next year, with help from the federal government, into the mystery brain illness a Moncton neurologist claims...

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario had declared a state of emergency over escalating safety concerns around gang activity.On Tuesday, leaders from Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg First Nation – also known as...

Ontario tabled a bill Monday that aims to shutter 10 supervised consumption sites the government deems too close to schools and daycares.The bill, if passed by Premier Doug Ford's majority...