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Stephen Lewis, a giant in Canadian activism, is being remembered as a tireless fighter who demanded better of all.

Former patients of a dental clinic in Brantford, Ont., are being warned by Grand Erie Public Health to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV due to an infection prevention and control lapse investigation.

GrS Montreal, the sole clinic in Quebec offering fully subsidized gender-affirming surgeries, recently announced that a change in provincial funding will delay wait times — possibly by years — but only for Quebec patients.

People in and around Flin Flon have started a health care committee to improve regional care. Saskatchewan residents use the hospital in the northern Manitoba community, but sometimes have trouble accessing care.

A Calgary private plasma collection centre was designated as “non-compliant” by Health Canada in December for violating rules regulating the country’s blood supply. The revelation is sparking new questions about safety.

Despite increases to provincial funding in recent years, the percentage of children with autism registered with the Ontario Autism Program and receiving funding had yet to crack 25 per cent as of early this year — as demand for the funding continues to grow.

A powerful tranquilizer surfacing in Alberta’s unregulated drug supply cannot be reversed by standard opioid overdose treatments, warns an Alberta-based researcher and physician.

Most women enter menopause in their mid-40s or 50s, but for those hitting this transformational life stage earlier, scientists warn there could be a heightened risk of future health impacts, like heart attacks and dementia.

The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.

Rural school boards use roving wellness counsellors to help address increasingly complex issues in Alberta's classrooms.

Doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador says quick implementation of a province-wide electronic health information system threatens to harm patients and push some physicians to retire or leave the province.

The acting chief public health officer for Canada says "progress" is being made to eradicate tuberculosis in Nunavut. The territory's chief public health officer says it is possible to eliminate TB by 2030, but only if housing health care and other sectors work together.

The Quebec government has tabled a piece of legislation that would make it easier to forcibly detain people whose mental health could make them a danger to themselves or others.

Young health-care providers at Havana’s Cardiology Institute describe a double-whammy of desperation in their work and private lives. They're anxious about what the future holds since a U.S. oil embargo in January led to dramatic fuel shortages in Cuba, along with soaring food prices and nationwide power outages.

Despite a long and cold winter, no frostbite amputations have been reported in Montreal so far this year compared to an annual average of about six. The drop in cases could be connected to the addition of hundreds of spots in temporary warming shelters around the city and the use of a new drug protocol to treat frostbite.

Some family doctors and emergency room physicians working in Edmonton hospitals warn that an April 1 end to stipend pay arrangements could put patient care at risk and increase suffering.

The Islander Athletics "mom club" allows parents to work out while their kids are looked after, building muscle and community.

Manitoba parents and guardians received a warning from public health officials ahead of spring break vacations and Easter holidays asking them to consider measles risks while travelling or attending large gatherings.

Cassandra Lee is one of more than 400 health-care professionals from the U.S. that have accepted jobs in B.C. since the province launched a targeted recruitment campaign south of the border last year.

Nearly four months into Australia's landmark social media ban for users under 16, parent proponents laud it as a valiant first step towards a safer online experience for youth. Yet as other countries weigh introducing their own social age minimum, some continue to question bans as a solution.

A nurse in Winnipeg says Canada's immigration system is undercutting efforts to address a shortage of health-care workers, after his application for permanent residency was rejected on a technicality.

Ontario is planning to create a provincewide electronic medical record system for primary care, more than two decades after the government first embarked on what became a scandal-plagued eHealth project.

New legislation would prevent anyone in Alberta from receiving medical assistance in dying (MAID) who is unlikely to die within the next 12 months.

Reuters data analysis shows swift fall in inoculations of toddlers. Officials link vaccination ​decline to Kennedy's policies and rhetoric.

A growing number of young people are turning to self-harm in Canada and other parts of the world, according to new research.

New Canadian research suggests close to a third of life-threatening complications linked to pregnancy and childbirth happen to women during the first six weeks following a delivery — a time when mothers typically experience far less medical tracking and support than they did during pregnancy.

Got a nagging father-in-law or a roommate who hounds you endlessly about how to properly load the dishwasher? Such people have something in common: they're hasslers, and they may be slowly shaving years off your life and putting you at a higher risk of developing chronic disease, according to a new study.

The advice on how to prevent peanut allergy in babies did a U-turn. Here's the scientific basis and practical tips for parents to apply the advice.

The Ontario government has served notice it will end funding to at least two drug consumption sites in Toronto.

A trial directly comparing two commonly used blood-thinning drugs found that one carries a lower risk of dangerous bleeding ‌in patients with clots in veins deep in the body, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.

Paid plasma could be banned in Manitoba, the province's health minister said after two fatal adverse reactions at Winnipeg collection centres were reported to Health Canada.

Toronto author Jowita Bydlowska had told the world how she got sober in her 2013 bestselling memoir Drunk Mom. What she didn’t expect was having to write about relapsing over a decade later.

A new program in remote First Nations across northwestern Ontario aims to improve access to medical transportation and emergency medical service training. Communities are leading the emergency first response team (EFRT) program in partnership with the air ambulance service Ornge. Here's how the EFRT aims to improve health-care access in fly-in First Nations.

A rising number of Canadian facilities are using mobile brain scanners to help patients, by offering MRIs mid-surgery in hospital or diagnosing stroke right on the roadside. So what's the future of this game-changing technology?

A standardized public health response to an E. coli outbreak at several Calgary daycare centres three years ago resulted in fewer children developing serious health complications, a new study suggests.

Supports and programming for people with disabilities, seniors and African Nova Scotian and Indigenous students will be maintained, reversing the cuts that were previously announced.

Research shows a growing number of non- and never-smokers are getting diagnosed with lung cancer. Risks for never-smokers include poor air quality caused by pollution and wildfire smoke, occupational exposures like those for firefighters and construction workers, as well as cancer-causing gases like radon found in an increasing number of homes.

The latest wave of an ongoing shortage of estrogen patches has some Alberta women scrambling to find new menopause treatments.

The B.C. NDP has promised a mental health counsellor in every school but gaps, particularly in rural regions, persist.

Premier Doug Ford is defending his government’s health-care record ahead of his eighth budget, even as the province’s hospitals say they face a billion-dollar structural funding deficit.

A mobile MRI unit intended to serve patients in two northern Manitoba communities has been parked in Thompson and is struggling to retain staff, according to two associations representing technologists.

Randy Littlechild, chairman and president of the First Nations Health Consortium, says if you were to divide the $1.55 billion in funding promised for Jordan's Principle between the more than 600 First Nations in Canada, each would receive less than $3 million.

Emergency physicians at St. Boniface Hospital said it's demoralizing to see long wait times at Manitoba's second-largest hospital, and elsewhere in the health-care system, having become increasingly normalized over the years.

After spending six days on a hospital stretcher, Jaymee Miller said she hopes she never has to be admitted to the Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook ever again.

The Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency is changing how continuing care is delivered at facilities in Bridgetown, Berwick and Antigonish due to operational changes and complaints by some residents about mandatory costs, according to a spokesperson.

The medical director of trauma services at Vancouver General Hospital says the health authority's directive to divert pregnant patients is causing "horrific distress" among clinicians. The directive comes as the hospital operates without any on-call obstetricians.

As the Alberta government promises to address pressures on hospitals and improve surgical wait times, while also grappling with a deficit budget, there are questions about where it is choosing to spend its money.

Costco Wholesale is alerting customers of a recall of certain lot codes of the Delici Dubai Style chocolate mousse due to the possible presence of cashew nuts and macademia nuts that aren't declared on the label.

Parents and advocates are sounding the alarm over the harm the provincial government’s proposed budget cuts will cause some of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable.