Health

Interior Health has issued an alert for a street drug in Kelowna.

Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old man from the Netherlands, is able to walk for the first time in 12 years.

An app designed by a doctor at Charles-Lemoyne hospital in Montreal is dramatically improving patient care.

As barbecue season heats up across the country, a food safety expert is warning Canadians of bacterial hazards that may accompany the smoky aromas and sizzling gril…

B.C.’s health minister says there’s no gag order on doctors at the province’s busiest hospital.

Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics can live on the surfaces of plants or within the soil, but they can also survive in clouds, meaning they can travel thous…

The world’s first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday.

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has opened up new possibilities for doctors and patients — but the technology also comes with the risk of mis…

The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restri…

A recent measles scare is prompting a reminder from health officials in Nova Scotia to ensure you and your loved ones are vaccinated against the illness.

The federal health minister says regulations governing medical practice may have to be strengthened in each province to prevent “incompetence” by doctors who could …

Merritt, B.C. residents are voicing their frustrations, as they deal with yet another emergency room closure Sunday.

A new residential eating disorder treatment program is set to be built in Calgary with the aim of closing a “significant gap” in the continuum of care, according to…

Peterborough Public Health‘s risk index for COVID-19 returned to a low level following one death and 48 new lab-confirmed cases, including five new hospitalized cas…

U.S. President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday by a federal appeals court.

The BC Ambulance Paramedics Union is highlighting a number of risks that members face on a daily basis, after first responder safety was the subject of a bill intro…

A small Yukon First Nation says it’s dealing with an “opioid emergency” that is terrorizing citizens and families with violence, crime, overdoses and death.

COVID-19 has taken a minimal toll on most people’s mental health globally, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). But a separat…

Federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters Friday that provinces will now be penalized for allowing private diagnostic clinics to charge user fees, wit…

The federal government is deducting a total of $82 million in Canada Health Transfers from provinces, including Alberta, over “patient charges levied during 2020-20…

A West Kelowna, B.C., nurse who breached patient privacy has had her professional licence suspended for 10 weeks.

The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the d…

A B.C. cannabis company says it has approval from Health Canada to include cocaine as a substance the company can legally possess, produce, sell and distribute.

The British Columbia government has reached an agreement in principle on health-care funding with the federal government that will deliver $3.3 billion in new money…

TORONTO — Ontario’s public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them …

New details are emerging about the death of a patient at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton last July, which are revealed through documents o…

With the release of the provincial budget on Tuesday, B.C. will become the first province in Canada to make prescription contraception free for all residents.

A new intelligence report from the U.S. Department of Energy that reportedly concludes it’s possible the COVID-19 pandemic originated from an accidental laboratory …

Between the beeping of medical devices, opening and closing of doors, ringing of telephones, rolling of meal carts and constant calls on loudspeakers, hospitals are…

When Alfred Aquilina brought his wife to the long-term care facility that would be her new home, he was carrying her suitcase and a heavy load of emotions.

Researchers at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick in Saint John have discovered out a flaw in how we look at heart failure among women — a potentially life-saving dis…

After nearly four long years, the community of Peachland is getting its only medical clinic back.

A 53-year-old man in Germany is the third-ever person to be officially cured of HIV, according to a newly published scientific study.

The emergency department hours at Nicola Valley Hospital have been again due, this time, to an unexpected physician vacancy, Interior Health said in a notice sent o…

A Winnipeg man whose partner is dying of cancer is speaking out against the palliative home care he says has failed his loved one in her final days.