Tag Archives: health

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government tabled a $14.3-billion budget Tuesday that has been driven deep into deficit by a promised increase in health-care funding and a contingency fund to deal wit...

The B.C. Court of Appeal has denied a father's bid to prevent his children getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus. The court ruling says the father applied in court early last year to sto...

Five years ago, Ontarians suddenly found themselves staying home as part of a bigger push to "flatten the curve" of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was initially meant to last two weeks stretched into mon...

MONTREAL - Classes on disease and anatomy are par for the course in traditional medical training, but a new program at a Quebec university is making visits to the art museum a mandatory part of the cu...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas lawmaker who helped pioneer the state's restrictive abortion laws introduced a bill on Friday to clarify medical exceptions allowed under the law, representing a pivot fro...

TORONTO - Advocacy groups are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney for eliminating the cabinet positions dedicated to people with disabilities and women and gender equality issues. Carney was sworn in a...

EDMONTON - Alberta's front line health agency says it fired its leader earlier this year not because she was investigating corruption but because she was an "alarming" failure at her job. Alberta Heal...

EDMONTON - Alberta's health minister has filed papers in court to formally reject allegations from a former health leader who says she was fired for investigating sweetheart deals, collusion and high-...

WINNIPEG - The group representing Manitoba doctors is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes as they pay a burden on a health-care system already overworked by a shortage of family doctors. "Sick note...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government wants to cut more than $400 million in the fees it pays to doctors, according to a confidential memo obtained by The Canadian Press. The Feb. 18 memo, sent by Alberta...