More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community

More than 1,500 MDs are calling for a coroner's inquiry into the suicides, but the coroner's office is noncommittal.

As provinces grapple with how to decrease wait times for surgeries, Alberta is introducing a system in which doctors can simultaneously work in public hospitals and do private care on the side — a mod...

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

Faced with long waits, doctor shortages and the potential closure of its local clinic, the central Alberta town of Bashaw raised funds to launch a team-based medical clinic. However, relying on short-...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Many people in a community located more than 200 kilometres north of Fort McMurray have long believed there are links between cancers in their region and the industrial developments upstream along the...

Bangladesh, which once came close to eliminating measles, is facing its worst outbreak on record, with around 1,000 suspected and confirmed measles-related deaths reported since March as hospitals str...

Pilot program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare gives recovered drug users a chance to help others

Canadian and provincial health-care groups are calling on the federal government to stop Alberta from allowing physicians to practise in both the public and private system.

Health care system is no longer on the brink of collapse but caving in before our eyes, an ER doctor says

To many voters, the various questions on the Oct. 19 ballots that cover social services for newcomers will appear confusing and contradictory.

A new service is bringing a doctor closer to First Nation communities, helping break down barriers to health care and enabling patients like Melanie Kahmahkotayo to get help for conditions like diabet...

A Prince George woman believes she may be the inspiration for Dolly Parton's song Jolene. Juline Whelan met the singer in 1972 and matches the description of the little girl Parton says inspired the n...

Food and shelter grab headlines, but out-of-pocket health-care expenses have climbed at a nearly identical rate since 2022, Statistics Canada data shows. Economists and policy experts break down the s...

Michael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.

The new system, which has already sparked concern among doctors and some health care advocacy groups, has been in the works for months. It allows Albertans to self-refer and pay for MRIs, CT scans, ul...

Montréal-Nord resident Rosanna Montesi fell on her balcony on May 12. A request for home care was sent before she was discharged from the hospital, but her son says they’re still waiting to hear back ...

One out of every 10 emergency physicians in Canada have left their specialty, while the vast majority of others are reducing their hours or taking time off to manage burnout. The findings, part of a s...

Paula McLaughlin, who has lived in Coronation, Alta., for more than 50 years, says she got severe food poisoning last month. A rush to the east-central Alberta town’s emergency department resulted in ...

Corus Entertainment, owner of the Global Television Network, has confirmed plans for an unspecified number of layoffs. The company says the changes are an effort to “strengthen and sustain” its news d...

Three geriatricians from Quebec City have founded a clinic to help seniors avoid prolonged stays in the emergency room.

A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo's Ministry of Health said Sunday. At least 365 patients are in hospitals ...

Thousands of people have died due to the toxic drug crisis in the decade since B.C. declared it a public health emergency. But a new study shows that many more could have died if not for the province'...

Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.

Conservative MP Corey Tochor introduced legislation on Tuesday to legalize prescribing psychedelics like psilocybin, which researchers and patients say can effectively treat some mental health disorde...

An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy ...

A special parliamentary committee is recommending that the federal government "indefinitely exclude" people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from applying for medical assistance in ...

A decade after medical assistance in dying became legal in Canada, family and friends of people who chose to die tell the stories of their loved ones

Podcast Episode · White Coat, Black Art · June 12 · 27m

The IWK Health Centre is leaning on colleagues at Nova Scotia Health as the Halifax hospital contends with an ongoing shortage of radiologists and works through the result of a workplace assessment in...

Front-line workers say Winnipeg is in the midst of a drug epidemic, driven by a surge in opioid overdoses that is killing users and overwhelming first responders who are dispatched to dozens of calls ...

An experimental drug that doubles survival time for people with pancreatic cancer is being hailed as a breakthrough for combating one of the world's deadliest cancers.

More than four months after pledging that emergency physicians would soon begin roles monitoring waiting room patients, the Alberta government’s promised triage liaison physicians aren’t yet on the jo...

Quebec will be left with 44 cardiac surgeons and a backlog of nearly 1,600 heart operations.

A 94-year-old Steinbach, Man., woman has stopped taking her heart medication and antibiotics in the hopes of hastening her death after she was refused medical assistance in dying, or MAID, earlier thi...

A family says their son was a patient who died in the waiting room of the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s emergency department in Edmonton earlier this month.

Medicine Podcast · Updated Weekly · Trusted ER doctor Brian Goldman brings you honest and surprising stories that can change your health and your life. Expect deep conversations with patients, familie...

Scientists say new species of ticks carrying troubling pathogens travelling our way from the northern United States at a rate of about 50 kilometres per year, including the lone star tick which can le...

Across many northern and remote Indigenous communities, families must leave weeks before giving birth. Some travel alone, others bring a support person, while children and extended family stay behind.

Countries worldwide scrambled on Thursday to trace people who had left the ‌cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak before it was anchored off the coast of Cape Verde to prevent further spread...

Workers at a private company the Nova Scotia government contracts to care for deeply vulnerable people say Arden Professional Client Care is scrambling to replace some of its most experienced staff.

Johanna Sutcliffe's family is critical of the care she received in her final days, and they’re calling for systemic change to close what they see as a gap in provincial standards of care at special ca...

A man in Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region is questioning if his father would still be alive if his family's 911 calls were properly transferred to Quebec, instead of landing in Ontario. By the ti...

Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

A Canadian woman who has been fighting for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to be an option for people with mental disorders, is now asking the courts to exempt her from current laws so that a docto...

Dangerous opioids, declines in support services and other factors each play a part in making Alberta’s capital an outlier

Doctors in Calgary started performing endoscopic spine surgery in January 2025. According to Alberta Health Services, nearly 100 patients have received the minimally invasive procedure since the progr...

Canadians are waiting months to years for a hip or knee replacement, and in some cases, paying thousands of dollars out-of-pocket to have the surgery done privately. That isn't happening in Germany.

The new policy comes after a man was charged earlier this month for stabbing a 42-year-old man, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.