Tag Archives: health

Canada's chief public health officer says more children are being hospitalized this flu season because of an early spike in a strain of influenza B, which hits young people hard and is circulating acr...

VANCOUVER - Canada's health minister says talk about decriminalizing drugs to deal with the country's opioids crisis is premature until people have enough help to fight t...

SALMON ARM , B.C. - A judge says the father of two boys has the right to ensure his children receive necessary immunizations and dental treatments, despite objections from the children's mother. ...

TOKYO - Japan's government said Thursday a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese...

CALGARY - The Alberta Crown's appeal of the acquittal of a couple in the death of their son is to be heard in June. David and Collet Stephan were accused of not seeking medical attention sooner f...

CANBERRA, Australia - Fire alarms have been sounding in high-rise buildings across downtown Sydney and Melbourne as dense smoke from distant wildfires confuse electronic sensors. Modern government off...

WASHINGTON - A brief, one-sided battle of the sexes broke out Tuesday night in Iowa as Bernie Sanders strenuously denied ever telling Elizabeth Warren that a woman couldn't be elected president of the...

TORONTO - The federal Liberals' first budget of their minority mandate will put a heavy focus on the environment, which Finance Minister Bill Morneau says should get the opposition support he nee...

VANCOUVER - Canadian medical schools have not adequately addressed the urgent need for training related to planetary health and climate change, and members of the Canadian Federation of Medical Studen...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Appeal Court has reaffirmed a teenager's decision to have gender transition treatment and urged the boy's father to try to understand his s...