Tag Archives: health

VANCOUVER - A woman who has regularly visited China from her home in Delta, B.C., says she would not travel there over concerns about a new coronavirus that is spreading ...

TORONTO - Canadians have no need to worry about the prospect of mass quarantines, even in the likely event the coronavirus is discovered here, public health authorities said on Friday. They said scary...

BOSTON - The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend 5 1/2 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid cr...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief medical officer, Theresa Tam, says there is a low risk of an outbreak here of a coronoavirus that has killed least 17 people in China and infected another 500. Here are so...

Concerns about a viral outbreak in China have put global health officials on alert, but how much of a threat is the coronavirus to Canadians? The World Health Organization stopped short of callin...

Placing an entire city under quarantine to prevent the spread of a virus is inconceivable, unenforceable and ineffective - and in Canada would be against the law, experts say. Steven Hoffman, a profes...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government will hold at least one day of public consultations on the possibility of expanding access to medical aid in dying to people suffering from severe mental illness, Healt...

LONDON - The World Health Organization says a viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people is not yet a global health emergency. The decision came after Chinese authorities moved to loc...

OTTAWA - The New Democrats are planning to bring forward legislation to implement a national, universal pharmacare program. NDP House Leader Peter Julian is set to table a private member's bill a...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government is rolling out information rather than surgical masks and thermal scanners to try to keep the country safe from a virus that has already killed more than two...