East West Information

Ontario is not seeing rapid growth in cases of monkeypox and its vaccination strategy appears to be working, the province's top doctor says.

A Brampton, Ont., couple are still looking for answers and an apology nearly a year after their newborn son died from complications of a birth-related blunt force head injury in hospital. A patient advocate says getting an apology from a hospital or doctor in Canada shouldn't be so difficult.

Canada’s premiers gather today for two days of meetings in Victoria, British Columbia, where they're expected to focus on their demand for more health-care funding from the federal government.

Widespread staff shortages at agencies serving adults with intellectual disabilities is leading to high turnover, program cutbacks and long waits for services.

If things don’t improve, the Hôpital Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst, Ont., won’t have any emergency room doctors for one full week in August. It's among smaller hospitals in the province impacted by staffing shortages.

Fewer medical school graduates are choosing to go into family medicine and open their own primary-care practices, data shows. It comes at a time when more than one million Ontarians can't find a family doctor and just as many are set to lose the ones they already have.

Cancer patient Patricia Riley says operating room backlogs at the Ottawa Hospital have forced her surgeon to push back her potentially life-saving surgery. She's worried her likelihood of surviving cancer is decreasing while she waits.