Tag Archives: health

A story about disease and climate change published by The Canadian Press on Sunday, May 26, incorrectly said that Victoria Ng, senior scientific evaluator for the Public Health Agency of Canada, lives...

MONTREAL - An average of one child a day goes to the emergency room for a drowning or near-drowning in Quebec during the summer months, new research has found. The study will be officially presented i...

It was 15 years ago that Ontario student Justin Wood started feeling sick. A keen soccer player, snowboarder and mountain biker, Wood said he didn't know the cause but he had to "back off from playing...

OTTAWA - A wall of flames met David Matear when he finally stepped outside of the downtown Fort McMurray hospital, after the final patient was hurried out of the building and into a waiting bus. "You ...

OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is thanking the federal government for rejecting Toronto's long-stalled pitch to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs. The premier expressed that gratitude ...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is open to adding more medications to the list of drugs covered by its proposed pharmacare program. Holland made the comments at a parliamenta...

OTTAWA - While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, one-fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada's a...

The First Nations Health Authority in B.C. is investigating after being hit by a cybersecurity attack. The health authority, which bills itself as the first and only provincial one of its kind in Cana...

A pair of Saskatoon paramedics saved Nicole Craig's life. The 45-year-old woman was in downtown Saskatoon with a work colleague on April 15, when she suddenly went into cardiac arrest. Her colleague c...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - On paper, Vince Gilmer was granted freedom more than two years ago. Later this week, he may actually leave prison. The former small-town North Carolina doctor and convicted murder...