Tag Archives: health

BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby says there's a "zero per cent chance" the province will implement recommendations by the provincial health officer that alternatives to opioids and o...

MONTREAL - A major Montreal health network started to reopen medical services Friday after an overnight aqueduct break cut drinkable water to its superhospital site. The McGill University Health Centr...

A proposed amendment to New York's constitution to bar discrimination over "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" will appear on the ballot this November, the state's high court ruled Thursday. Th...

OTTAWA - The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement. The money is...

VICTORIA - B.C's Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry joked that "the earth shook" with Thursday's release of her report on the safer-supply drug program, referring to an earthquake lightly felt...

WINNIPEG - Cheers erupted in a Winnipeg courtroom, spilling out onto downtown streets Thursday, as family members who lost their loved ones at the hands of a serial killer said they had finally receiv...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas election officials on Wednesday rejected petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters this fall in a predomina...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says the Regina Urgent Care Centre's first week of operation was a success. Thomas Stewart, the health authority's executive director of acute care, said medical staf...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged another $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine in a one-on-one conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in W...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Doctors in Atlantic Canada say too many beds in emergency departments are taken up by people who need non-emergency care, and the "bed-blocking" is driving high numbers of emergency...