Tag Archives: health

The Canadian Cancer Society says all provinces and territories should lower the starting age for breast cancer screening to 40. The current guideline set by a national task force says screening for pe...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government says a bill to force treatment for drug users that was to be introduced this spring has now been shelved until after the fall election...

VANCOUVER - Health Canada's decision to allow British Columbia to again prohibit the use of illicit drugs in most public spaces will cause more deaths, the executive director of the Vancouver Area Net...

OTTAWA - A new national dental-care plan denies independent hygienists equal reimbursement for the same services offered in dentists' offices - and the federal health minister said this week he isn't ...

TORONTO - Recruitment and retention of doctors in Ontario is "not a major concern," the Ministry of Health suggests in arguments it is making in arbitration with the Ontario Medical Association over p...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of abortion restrictions in their states visited Michigan on Tuesday to highlight what they...

VICTORIA - On the same day the British Columbia government's approach to the overdose crisis faces a major shift, the provincial coroner announced another 192 people were killed by illicit drugs in Ma...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A proposed amendment to New York's constitution barring discrimination based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" cannot appear on the state ballot in November because leg...

Saskatchewan set a surgical record recently, the Ministry of Health says, with more than 95,700 procedures performed over 12 months. According to the ministry, the record for the highest number of sur...

EDMONTON - An Alberta man with autism has been unfairly denied the support he needs by a government program that relies too heavily on intelligence tests, the province's ombudsman has concluded. "The ...