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Barb Bobychuk says when paramedics assessed her 89-year-old mother-in-law for a fall but did not take her to the hospital, she shouldn’t have been charged a fee.

Montreal Public Health says hundreds of people may have been exposed to measles between Nov. 23 and Nov. 26. during and after a recent NATO conference held in the city. According to the health agency, places of exposure to measles include the Palais des congrès and Trudeau International Airport.

Over their lifetime, people with cancer and their caregivers face nearly $33,000 in costs like medications, transportation to hospital and accommodation as well as lost income, the Canadian Cancer Society reports.

Despite the warnings of experts, there are growing conversations around the supposed benefits of raw milk. Microbiologists say the evidence clearly shows drinking unpasteurized milk is far riskier and may lead to harmful outcomes.

Laura O'Byrne has countless fibroids — growths around her uterus, which itself is three times larger than normal — and a large ovarian cyst. But she's met a number of roadblocks in treating her issues, including being dismissed by a Nova Scotia gynecologist and denied an out-of-province claim to MSI for an urgent hysterectomy in her home province of Manitoba.

Amid a 35 per cent jump in HIV cases across Canada, the numbers have stabilized in northwestern Ontario — and health-care workers say it's largely due to harm reduction services in the region. Here's what local health-care workers say is working in helping prevent the spread of blood-borne infections.

Sixty-three per cent of women with disabilities who experienced homelessness said it was because of violence, compared with 54 per cent of women without disabilities, said a joint statement from The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the federal housing advocate.