Tag Archives: health

As Canadians connected to an outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship isolate in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, rumours and misinformation about the virus are spreading online. Her...

TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer says the country is taking a "precautionary approach" in monitoring people who may have had indirect contact with passengers who were on the hantavirus-s...

Charuka Maheswaran was 29 when she met the man she would later marry, have three children with, and who she said eventually beat and strangled her. "He pushed me up against the counter and I could fee...

OTTAWA - A new online survey suggests nearly a quarter of Canadians say they've declined to get a vaccine recommended by their doctor, and the data indicates most of them did so because they were conc...

TORONTO - New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province's auditor general concluded in a spec...

VANCOUVER - Members of British Columbia's nurses union have voted overwhelmingly to strike, with union president Adriane Gear raising the prospect of a dispute while "the whole world is watching us" d...

TORONTO - Ontario's ministry of health is asking seven more people to isolate in relation to a global hantavirus outbreak, though it says those individuals are considered "low-risk" contacts. Jackson ...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan is expanding the critical care ward in its largest hospital, but the union representing nurses wants to know who will be staffing. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said Monday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, m...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is spending more than $250 million on preventive health care over the next five years in a bid to reduce illness and stave off rising costs. The government says the mo...