Beverly Tupper, from the remote northern Alberta community of Fitzgerald, was sent to Edmonton on a medevac flight. The flight was from Fort Smith, N.W.T., and Alberta doesn't cover medical transports from outside the province.
Fire retardants — including toxic, regulated compounds — were found in roughly 85 per cent of products analyzed by researchers of a recently published study. The items tested include kitchen utensils, food trays and even children's toys.
Canadian officials say SunFed Produce brand whole, fresh, American cucumbers have been recalled due to potential salmonella contamination. The cucumbers were sold in several Canadian provinces in October and November.
Canada's top court has ruled that British Columbia can bring forward a class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers for harms caused by opioids on behalf of other provinces, territories and the federal government.
People in La Ronge are raising concerns over access to fresh healthy food after doctors diagnosed 27 cases of scurvy over the past year.
More than three million Ontarians could be at risk of losing their family doctor to retirement with thousands of family physicians over the age of 60, the provincial Liberals say.
Canadian officials say an additional organic carrot product is under recall due to possible E. coli O121 contamination.
A Canadian non-profit that helps women obtain the abortion pill in countries with restrictions says it saw a fourfold increase in U.S. requests after the presidential election.
Less than a month after Kapuskasing's Sensenbrenner Hospital announced that its obstetrics program is at immediate risk of closing, a new report from the Northern Policy Institute is calling for action on the shortage of labour and birthing care in the rural north.
The inquest for six inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre heard Tuesday that five of the men died overnight, one of several commonalities noted in testimony by a corrections consultant. Photos released at the hearing also provide an emotional look at the six lives that were lost between 2017 and 2021.
A Thunder Bay woman says her ex-partner was charged after allegedly trying to strangle her on three occasions, but the court case was stayed due to a lack of evidence. Now, she's urging Ontario to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic, as several other provinces have. As an Ontario committee studies the bill, advocates say the problem is getting worse as a backlog of criminal court cases grows.
A charity is working with hospitals in New Brunswick to provide “comfort kits” to survivors of sexual violence when they're seen by a nurse following an assault.
B.C. health officials say they still don't know how a teenager became infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu, believed to be the first such case in Canada. The teenager is still in critical condition, the province says, adding that no further cases have been identified.
The Baüne Autonomous Care Unit in Montreal’s West Island has acquired technology used by the Canadian Space Agency to help analyze patient data as tens of thousands in the area are without a family doctor.
Jenny Lee-Gilmore had trouble staying awake in school, vivid sleep hallucinations and would wake up six to 10 times per night. Seven years after she first went to the doctor about being tired all the time, she was diagnosed with Type 1 narcolepsy.
A statement from the privacy commissioners of both Ontario and British Columbia says their joint report, completed in June 2020, found that LifeLabs "failed to take reasonable steps" to protect clients' data while collecting more personal health information than was "reasonably necessary."
The head of the Manitoba Nurses Union isn't surprised that another front-line health worker is deeply concerned about escalating violence in their workplace.
Manitoba has detected the first confirmed case of a recently identified lineage of mpox in Canada.
A family doctor in Corner Brook is quitting and closing her practice next month, saying she's overworked and overwhelmed amid an ongoing shortage of family physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Experts in the field of child sex abuse prevention argue we need to bring pedophilia out of the shadows if we want to end abuse.
Critics say the situation in Quebec should act as a warning of what could happen elsewhere in Canada if incremental steps in the direction of privatization are allowed to add up to giant leaps.
Manitoba has detected the first confirmed case of a recently identified lineage of mpox in Canada.
Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor.
You may think standing desks are a better alternative to a full day seated at a desk. But new evidence shows it's not that simple.
Health-care advocates are sounding the alarm on foot care coverage in Saskatchewan. With only 22 registered podiatrists in the province, patients are seeking the service of foot-care nurses, who are not eligible for insurance or government funding.
Most young people turn to social media with their questions, but end up getting an onslaught of bite-sized, dubiously reliable content. Students and experts alike say more extensive learning is needed to boost critical thinking skills and help them be savvier on social media.
A father finds his son's tragic story being used to sell a bogus product that claims to remove everything from pesticides to bacteria, including E.coli, from your food. We put that device to the test and discover not only is the product we bought no better than tap water — it's outright dangerous.
CBC News follows Tasnim Jaisee and her father along as they navigate the streets of Saskatoon after the first snow storm. Jaisee has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as the brittle bone disease.
The new head of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg has some homework to do before taking over in January — starting with a long-awaited parliamentary committee report that recommends ending all government-funded research in sensitive areas with people or entities from within China.
A recent inspection of a Tom's of Maine facility found that the company's toothpaste was made using bacteria-tainted water, among other health violations, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Doug Eyolfson says Grace's ER was built to handle 30 active patients, but that number surged to 52 on Sunday — with another 40 people in the waiting room. He said some people waiting for a bed were left on stretchers in the hallways.
A team of scientists, including one from Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, China, and didn't originate with a lab leak.
For the first time, Nova Scotia Health has a dedicated gender-affirming top surgery program with specifically trained surgeons who have a mandate to provide the care. Two surgeons have been recruited for the program in the last two years.
Leaders from Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg First Nation – also known as Pic Mobert First Nation – held a press conference at Queen's Park Tuesday morning to demand more support for what it's calling "a crisis in violence, organized crime, addiction and mental health." Here's what community leaders want to see done.
After an investigation into allegations that Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services staff were buying houses to rent to agency and internationally trained nurses, the health authority says it terminated 51 leases.
Robot and telecommunications cuts down on travel and cost to access physio and rehab services in Pinaymootang and Lake Manitoba First Nations.
New research suggests girls are falling behind boys when it comes to participating in sports in Canada, prompting calls to close the gap and keep girls active.
Some doctors are being accused of offering shoddy or biased evidence in cases where big insurance companies are looking to block or reduce payouts for people hurt in car crashes. Yet they face no penalties or sanctions for their flawed reports, and nothing is stopping them from appearing in court again, says an expert.
The chemical cocktails that are emitted when modern homes burn, as well as foams used to extinguish fires, were long seen as the biggest hazards to firefighters. But firefighters increasingly worry that PFAS, which make firefighting gear more resistant to abrasion, heat and moisture, could also be hurting them.
Perfectionism leads to procrastination, black-and-white thinking and can be harmful to your mental health, experts say.
As the gambling industry expands worldwide with the increasing popularity of online gambling, a recent report from The Lancet's commission on gambling urges governments to treat gambling as a public health issue.
Doctors in northern Sask. discovered an unusual number of scurvy cases, raising concerns about food security in rural and remote communities.
Toronto is declaring itself a paid-plasma-free zone — a designation that will likely do nothing to stop Canadian Blood Services from opening two clinics in the city's suburbs that will pay people for plasma donations in 2025.
Canadian cancer researchers are part of global efforts to test targeted alpha therapy, a new form of treatment that some oncologists believe is the next frontier in attacking cancer at the cellular level.
Some people who are blind have been able to forego a walking cane by using echolocation instead to visually sense their world. Now in a new study, scientists discovered that sighted individuals can also gain this ability through training.
Yukon says its Communicable Disease Control and the territory's chief medical officer have confirmed a case of whooping cough on a flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver earlier this month.
More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide, almost twice as many as previous estimates have suggested, and more than half of those aged over 30 who have the condition are not receiving treatment, according to a new study.
Livestock measures aim to keep virus out as hospitals and labs test patients with respiratory symptoms.
Dozens of researchers across Canada have joined a growing chorus of voices urging the federal government to halt the importation of an endangered monkey species for medical research in Quebec.
CBC Winnipeg News host Brittany Greenslade speaks with Canadian gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter, who is part of a Tuesday panel discussion about health misinformation and how to separate fact from fiction. It's part of Together Against Misinformation Week, a nationwide event that runs until Nov. 17.