The B.C. government is issuing new guidance for physicians treating youth with overlapping mental health and substance use issues. It directs doctors to notify parents and potentially involuntarily detain youth if they're unable or unwilling to seek care themselves.
Kai T. Erikson, Yale sociologist who dedicated his career to documenting the collective trauma faced by communities in the wake of unimaginable disasters, has died at the age of 94. In the late '70s, he spent time collecting the stories of people on Grassy Narrows First Nation suffering from the impacts of mercury poisoning.
Some FreeStyle Libre 3 plus glucose monitor sensors may provide incorrect low glucose readings, Health Canada says in an alert. The recalled sensors have been linked to injuries and even deaths elsewhere in the world.
Manitoba is updating its regulations governing the handling of asbestos to protect workers from dangerous exposure to the material, the leading cause of work-place related deaths in the province, the government says.
An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could keep climbing in the weeks ahead.
Negotiations between the Quebec government and family doctors have collapsed again, just weeks before controversial reforms take effect that doctors warn will force them to close their clinics — or leave the province altogether.
A randomized controlled trial involving 12 weekly choir sessions for participants who have developed aphasia from strokes, aims to find out if singing together helps them re-gain their ability to speak and write.
Chiefs in Ontario are denouncing the federal government’s delayed introduction of a bill to ensure First Nations have safe drinking water. They're also concerned that Canada intends to weaken proposed legislation before tabling it.
Iranian pistachios previously imported to Canada need to be held and tested for salmonella before being sold, federal officials say.
Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021, the province's auditor general found.
Medical professionals say a 2021 report supported by Health Canada could have a major impact on how the medical system can better understand chronic pain and the best ways to diagnose it — but with its release during the height of COVID-19 pandemic, the report flew under the radar, and some doctors and advocates are hoping that can chanage.
For the first time since 2017, Canadian doctors have released updated clinical guidelines for antiretroviral medications used to prevent HIV.
CBC News spoke with five paramedics who say they’ve been sent out to respond to 911 calls unnecessarily — either because the call had already been handled by another team and reappeared in the system, or because several ambulances were dispatched to the same call. Urgences-santé, meanwhile, insists there’s been no impact on patient care since the system was implemented.
A U.S. podiatrist says he is leaving the province because his patients have to wait years to see a surgeon for procedures on their feet, even though he's trained to do the procedures in his clinic.