The federal government will require travellers arriving from China, Hong Kong or Macao to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test before their departure.
Advocates for reducing suicide deaths in B.C.’s Lower Mainland say crisis phones on bridges across the region have helped provide critical support for people in their worst moments of anguish.
Major winter storms across Canada have negatively impacted supplies at Canadian Blood Services blood banks.
When Darleen Murdoch suffered a severe manic episode while on vacation in Hawaii, a doctor told the family she would never work again. But here is what she’s learned about medical miracles.
A woman from Cold Lake, Alta. says she has been waiting over two years for her spinal surgery to correct scoliosis.
The province is boosting efforts to address cancer in Alberta by increasing screening and trying to complete more surgeries.
This pediatric palliative care organization in Montreal's Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough places play at the heart of the care it provides to children with life-limiting illnesses.
An Ontario judge has ruled a million-dollar libel lawsuit launched by three nurses was an attempt to use the courts to silence critics of their anti-science and anti-vaccine views.
A personal support worker who faced deportation to Uganda despite working on the front lines during COVID-19 over the past three years has been granted a brief reprieve, days after CBC Toronto reported on her plight.
The federal government's ongoing review of the Cannabis Act emphasizes protecting public health — but experts and industry insiders say it also has to find a way to boost the legal marijuana industry and help it compete with the illicit market.
Philips Morris International, producer of Marlboro cigarettes, has pulled its shares from Canada's vaccine collaborator, Medicago. The company's COVID-19 vaccine, Covifenz, can now hit international markets if it reapplies with the World Health Organization, an expert says.
Six countries, including Italy and the U.S., have announced testing requirements for passengers from China, as the country continues to be accused of not being forthcoming about the virus.
Ontario pharmacies will officially be able to assess and prescribe medication for 13 common ailments as of Jan. 1. People will not be required to pay out of pocket for pharmacist visits.
Social behaviour is a big indicator of whether the COVID-19 pandemic is considered to be over, even if there are 30 deaths daily, says Dr. Samir Gupta, a Toronto respirologist.
Canadians who were caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine rules racked up at least $15 million in fines this year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, but it's not clear how much of that will actually be paid.
China may be in for 'tough several months ahead' due to its latest COVID-19 outbreak, says infectious diseases specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch. But he says that while Canada remains at risk from variants emerging around the world, vaccines are still effective against severe outcomes.
Chinese people who have been cut off from the rest of the world for three years by COVID-19 curbs flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening, even as rising infections strained the health system and roiled the economy.
Emergency rooms at 13 hospitals in rural B.C. were closed for the equivalent of around four months in 2022, according to data analyzed by CBC News. Mayors say the problem will likely continue if the province does not significantly invest in health care and prioritize rural residents.
Leaders from an Oji-Cree First Nation in Treaty 9 in Ontario says they want the Canadian government to take action to properly compensate all their community members enduring a long-term boil-water advisory, after learning most of them won't be eligible for a class action settlement.
One year after the federal government vowed to do more to give status to undocumented workers, Canada is pressing forward with deporting a personal support worker, ripping her from her child and sending her back to the country from which she says she ran for her life.
The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation fears for his community’s safety amid a critical nursing shortage at nursing stations across the province over the holidays.
Marathon and Olympic competitors who live in Hamilton manage a running group that meets at the Bayfront every Tuesday for training, and members also benefit from getting advice for hitting the streets in winter.
As COVID-19 approaches its fourth year, Omicron continues to mutate and become more immune evasive. But what does mutation mean, what doesn't it mean and why does immune evasiveness matter? Here are some answers based on what we know at this stage in the pandemic.
Many provinces have turned to virtual care as a way of taking pressure off their strained health-care systems, and hospitals have been able to divert patients from crowded emergency departments. But a new agreement in Ontario could mean fewer doctors will be interested in providing such services.
Lee-Anne Richardson knows first-hand how difficult the holidays can be for people on the path of sobriety. Work parties and family gatherings can be minefields.
Students doing graduate-level research say Canada risks losing its future scientists to other countries because the dollar amounts of annual grants have remained stagnant for nearly 20 years.
Saskatchewan residents who call 911 during a mental health crisis, and RCMP officers trying to defuse a potentially deadly confrontation will now be able to receive advice from a psychiatric nurse, the Mounties say.
A woman who allegedly faked a nursing licence to work at a long-term care home in Gander was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail for the death of her four-year-old son in Hamilton, Ont.
A Facebook post asking for a surrogate led Toronto mom Karen Scutt to Cindy Gilbank, who carried a daughter for her. More than two years later, the two women's families share a lasting bond.
After a particularly deadly period that saw at least eight pedestrians killed in Quebec over a two-week span, including a 7-year-old whose family fled war-torn Ukraine, advocates are questioning what can be done to prevent more deaths.
Minister Jason Copping says a cache of 5 million bottles of children's formulations of acetaminophen and ibuprofen can begin making their way from a Turkish manufacturer to Alberta once two outstanding issues are resolved.
A new law, Bill S-206, carves out a narrow exemption in the Criminal Code to allow jurors to speak about jury proceedings with health care professionals.
A health and safety consultant who teaches people how to administer naloxone is calling a recently updated City of Edmonton policy on naloxone “an absolute failure.”
The holidays can be a time to celebrate but for some people, the holidays may bring stress or sadness. Mental health and mindfulness experts suggest mindfulness practices this holiday season.
The one-nurse emergency room in the remote community of Alert Bay — off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island — has shut down until January due to no staff. It's just the latest example of a 'broken' health-care system that showed cracks during the pandemic. Critics say it will take smart spending to fix.
A young teenage girl in Chatham-Kent approached the health unit for birth control and left empty handed because she couldn't afford to pay for it.
Leaders of an Indigenous community near London, Ont., are calling on the federal government to work with them to help solve chronic water supply problems after a state of emergency was issued Tuesday due to low water levels.
Hundreds of Manitobans waiting for a hip or knee replacement will be getting a letter in the mail to encourage them to consider leaving the province for their operation.
The RCMP in Alberta is looking to expand its PACT teams — joint response teams that pair Mounties with health professionals to respond to mental health calls. But the units don't operate the same way everywhere, which means those dealing with addiction or mental health problems can't be certain a health-care worker will accompany police on a call.
Nunavik midwife Akinsie Qumaluk handled surprise twins, haemorrhaging and no access to emergency planes in her community of Puvirnituq.
A Tillsonburg, Ont., mother says she was surprised her toddler was released from SickKids in Toronto just 48 hours after he had open-heart surgery this month, and worries overcrowding at the hospital was behind him being discharged earlier than she had expected.
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it's responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems. The hospital says all patient care continues and there is currently no evidence that personal health information has been compromised.
The B.C.'s government says that almost all surgeries delayed during five waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have now been completed.
If a patient in Nunavik requires specialized medical care, they have to get on a plane and travel more than 1,400 kilometres to Montreal. But a new regional hospital proposed in Kuujjuaq, Que., could help keep some patients closer to home.
For some people with long COVID, the symptoms are so severe they are unable to work. Some Nova Scotians say government is not providing enough supports.
Ullivik, located near Montreal’s airport, was intended to serve as a place of healing for the hundreds of Inuit who come to the city every month for treatment. But in recent years, providing a welcoming environment has been a challenge.
Nova Scotia Public Health is declaring an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Shirreff Hall, a residence at Dalhousie University, after two cases were detected including a student who died suddenly.
A long term-care home in Saskatoon is providing a place for powerful exchanges between residents and Grade 6 students in an intergenerational classroom and through other activities designed to keep residents from being bored, lonely and feeling helpless.
COVID-19 has shone a brighter light on loss of smell, but some Canadians, like Kerri Wall, lost their sense of smell well before the pandemic.
A New Brunswick woman is demanding answers after her 88-year-old mother, who's in hospital awaiting a nursing home bed, was moved into a cramped room filled with supplies.