Children, teens and young adults with private health benefits will no longer be eligible to receive free prescriptions through OHIP+, newly appointed Health Minister Christine Elliott announced on Saturday.
A career in medicine can be gruelling, says an editorial in The Lancet. But in addition to the long hours and heavy workloads, the medical journal is highlighting a damning 300-page report on sexual harassment of women in in the academic fields of science, engineering and medicine.
Canada's health ministers say they are moving closer to a national pharmacare program, but questions remain over who will pay for it and how broad it will be.
Amazon announces it will buy PillPack, a small online pharmacy based in the United States. This move puts Amazon in direct competition with drugstore chains, drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is the world's deadliest superbug. It develops when bacteria that causes tuberculosis, a disease believed to be as old as mankind, stops responding to drugs used to treat it, largely because health-care workers improperly prescribe medicine or patients stop treatment early.
As it wraps up its fourth week of hearings, the Wettlaufer inquiry in St. Thomas is causing many people to question the safety of Ontario's long term care homes. So how can you choose one for your family?
Bryce and Hazel Gibson spent almost every day of their lives together from the time they were kids. Now, at 95 and 93 respectively, they find red tape is making that more difficult.
Tainted irrigation water appears to be the source of a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, U.S. health officials said.
Two families say the wheelchairs are available for their very sick kids, but it takes months to get them customized.
Dr. Robyn MacQuarrie says she wants to reassure the public about how the system handles poor outcomes with patients, following CBC's coverage of the $6 million birth injury settlement for Cullan Chisholm.
As provincial and federal health ministers meet in Winnipeg Thursday and Friday, expect discussion around a national pharmacare plan, more money from Ottawa on mental health and addictions, and a push from Manitoba for cannabis health warnings for kids.
Elizabeth Wettlaufer administered a large amount of insulin to a home care patient she was supposed to be caring for through a PICC line, the Ontario long-term care inquiry heard Wednesday.
Australia won a clear victory in a major trade dispute over its pioneering tobacco packaging law.
Teeth exhibit in London, U.K., explores the history of dentistry and oral hygiene throughout the ages. Experts question how inequalities in oral health can be tackled and access to high quality, evidence-based dental care can be assured for all.
The number of opioids reported missing to Health Canada from pharmacies and hospitals increased significantly between 2012 and late 2017, a CBC investigation found.
Gay seniors say they face a hard choice - hide who they are or deal with inferior health care and discrimination because of homophobia in long-term care facilities.
The public inquiry into long-term care will hear from employees of St. Elizabeth Home Health Care, where serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer worked before confessing to killing eight people in Ontario nursing homes over an almost decade-long career.
For women living in the 21st century, toxic shock syndrome can feel like a bit of a bogeyman — an ominous warning on your tampon package about a threat that almost never materializes.
More than half a million prescriptions drugs are stolen from pharmacies each year, with the majority being highly addictive opioid painkillers that end up on the street, according to an analysis of Health Canada data done by CBC News.
Patient care suffers when nursing homes use temp agency nurses to cover sick days, a former colleague of serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer told a public inquiry in St. Thomas, Ont., yesterday. So-called agency nurses aren't as invested in the residents as staff who work in nursing homes, Tracey Raney testified.
In a potentially precedent-setting decision, an Ontario court has rejected a Toronto area family's plea to keep their 27-year-old daughter, who has been declared brain dead, on life-support.
British Columbia is facing an emerging crisis in staffing shortages for seniors in assisted living and home healthcare, according to a new report
Dr. Allison Ball, an obstetrician, and the former Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority have agreed to pay $6 million to Cullan Chisholm due to severe brain injuries he suffered during his delivery.
Rates of C. difficile, the most common infectious cause of diarrhea in hospitalized patients in Canada, have decreased 36 per cent. Researchers say improvements in infection-control measures may have contributed to the decrease.
Study followed 422 children over an eight-year span, assessing the kids at ages two, five and 10. Researchers also tracked their social and emotional development. The findings underscored the importance of educating 'helicopter' parents about supporting children's autonomy with handling emotional challenges.
Myriam Steinberg was 40 and fresh off a breakup when she realized that if she wanted a baby, she’d have to go it alone. It's an issue some say is becoming more pervasive.
Within hours of finding out Elizabeth Wettlaufer was suspended for making a medication error, the Ontario Nurses' Association filed a grievance on her behalf, a public inquiry hears.
"Sometimes, one addict has to die in order to save another addict's life." Addicts say this. To other addicts. And somehow, this is okay.
On the heels of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement Wednesday that adults will be able to legally buy and consume recreational marijuana on Oct. 17, some doctors are reminding Canadians of potential risks from cannabis and countering some of the misperceptions about the drug that still prevail.
Transport Canada has been ordered to give a Victoria man a job with top-secret security clearance — and compensation as high as $500,000 — because he faced discrimination due to depression.
The Department of Health ordered all long-term care homes to report pressure ulcers. The data comes as police investigate the case of Chrissy Dunnington, who died with a severe bedsore.
There were 1,523 medically assisted deaths in Canada in the last six-month reporting period - a nearly 30 per cent increase over the previous six months.
No new cases of Ebola virus disease have been confirmed in Congo since the last known sufferer died on June 9, World Health Organization says.
The Ontario Nurses' Association wanted a nurse fired for making multiple medication errors to get $10,000 and a "positive" letter of reference about her skills, the Wettlaufer inquiry heard yesterday. The ONA was negotiating on behalf of Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who was fired from the Caressant Care nursing home in Woodstock in 2014.
A subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation is partnering with U.S.-based BWX Technologies to help produce radioactive isotopes used to diagnose such conditions as cancer and heart disease.
Elizabeth Wettluafer worked at Meadow Park Long-Term Care in London, Ont., for only five months, but killed one resident. The home knew Wettlaufer had been fired from her previous job for a medication error, but hired her anyway.
New government figures show that nearly 4,000 Canadians died from apparent opioid overdoses last year, with men the most likely victims and fentanyl the clear culprit.
People who are married may be less likely to develop cardiovascular disease or die from a heart attack or stroke than individuals who aren't, a research review suggests.
The cost of health claims related to hearing loss among members of Canada's military is rising, due in part to the reluctance of members to wear protective equipment and because the most suitable devices aren't always provided.
When she dressed up as the Grim Reaper for the nursing home Halloween party, nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer raised eyebrows, but her colleagues say they didn't know she was killing residents by injecting them with insulin. Wettlaufer's strange sense of humour and her inappropriateness with staff were discussed Monday at the Ontario public inquiry into long-term care that continues today.
A U.S. study suggests taking more than one of a long list of medications that cite depression as a side-effect could increase the risk of developing the illness. But a Canadian psychiatrist says he's skeptical.
The third week of the inquiry into the long-term care system is expected to hear from former colleagues at nursing homes in Woodstock and London as well as representatives from the Ontario Nurses Association.
Disney is warning theatregoers with epilepsy not to watch their latest summer blockbuster because several scenes in the movie can trigger seizures because of repeating bright flashing lights.
The World Health Organization says compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing young players.
A six-year-old boy in Mannville, Alta., is limited in where he can go and what he can eat as part of his parents' efforts to protect him from things that trigger painful reactions.
Should Canada threaten to start the world's first trade war in intellectual property? Some legal experts argue that targeting pharmaceutical patents could give Canada an edge in the current trade dispute with the U.S.
On June 12, White Coat Black Art hosted a panel called Crisis of Care: Help for Families and their High-Needs Kids as they Age out of the System.
While police investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Chrissy Dunnington at a long-term care facility in Halifax — expert Corrine McIssac says that the type of sores she had on her body are preventable.
A state appeals court has reinstated — at least for now — California's law allowing terminally ill people to end their lives.
Police are investigating if criminal negligence played a role in the death of a woman who was a resident at a long-term care facility in Halifax.
Doctors are not warning about the deadly consequences of using aluminum foil, contrary to a story being shared on social media.
Despite decades of calls for provincial regulation from within the industry, massage therapy remains largely a patchwork of minimum requirements and codes of conduct and the profession is entirely self-regulating.
