At a time when many Nova Scotians are desperate to find a family physician, one clinic says an alarming number of its patients simply skip their appointments with no excuse. It's now posting the total number of no-shows each month.
Drug consumers in Ottawa are calling on the provincial government to end its review of overdose prevention sites.
Recent trends suggest that control measures are working to halt an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo, World Health Organization says.
Rockyview is the first hospital in Canada to use virtual reality technology to help wound care patients alleviate the pain and stress of treatment.
Nearly 343,000 Quebecers receive publicly-funded home care. But clients and advocates say the services often fall short - and they want political parties to commit to improvements during the election.
Vancouver Coastal Health is cancelling its surgery contracts with two private health clinics because it's been able to open up more operating room space in public hospitals.
OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes says the force will conduct an internal review of member suicides and attempted suicides after three officers recently took their own lives.
Canada's trade negotiators reportedly pushed back on a single bullet point about the new trade deal between the U.S. and Mexico that a health policy expert says could boost prescription drug prices for Canadian patients.
Canadian Epilepsy Alliance calls portrayal of seizures inaccurate in the recently released Netflix film The After Party.
A mother's rejected complaint against a doctor offering chelation therapy for autism reveals there are no clear directives banning it, despite expert consensus that it doesn't work and can be harmful.
Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says a U.S.-approved auto-injector will be imported to ease Canada's current shortage of EpiPen injectors to treat life-threatening allergies.
About a third of deaths caused by opioids in Ontario in 2016 were among people who had been prescribed the drugs, a study published Wednesday shows.
Older patients prescribed opioids to deal with age-related health issues are suffering serious side effects exacerbated by the very illnesses their doctors are setting out to treat, a paradox Canada's health-care system must deal with before it gets worse, an Ontario advocacy group says.
Health, education and the economy are the top three concerns of voters so far in the election, according to a survey of 50,000 people. But, for young people, their number one concern is the environment.
There's a decline in new Ebola cases emerging but it is too soon to say that the outbreak is under control.
British Columbia will sue multiple pharmaceutical companies in an effort to reclaim health-care costs incurred during the opioid crisis, an expert being consulted on the case says.
Erinn Monture was diagnosed with ovarian cancer is 2015 and has created a cancer awareness and resource centre called, Edwadadrihwanokwa:k to help patients in other First Nations communities.
Students across Canada have been more vocal to combat stigma and universities are being held to a higher standard when it comes to mental-health services.
Ontario's provincial police force is expected to announced changes to its mental health support system in response to the recent suicides of three officers.
More than 1,000 medical trainees from Saudi Arabia have been told they can stay in their Canadian positions for a while longer, bringing relief to teaching hospitals and universities that have come to depend on them.
The audible signal system designed to make it safer for the visually impaired to cross busy intersections needs a rethink, community advocates say. They're pushing for some high-tech solutions already being tried in other Canadian cities.
Emergency room visits related to cannabis overdoses have more than doubled in Alberta and almost tripled in Ontario over the past three years as health experts decry the lack of proper product labelling and messaging about the responsible use of cannabis products.
Lab testing found small amounts of THC, the psychoactive chemical that causes marijuana's 'high,' in some breast milk samples from nursing mothers who were using pot.
Until recently, the prospect of measles elimination in developed countries seemed reasonable. But the number of cases in Europe soared this year and in 2017.
We know that women often feel disenfranchised when it comes to mainstream medicine. Goop and the rest of the wellness industry has tapped into that frustration and exploited it for profit.
Did talcum powder and the common weedkiller glyphosate cause cancer? Yes, according to jury decisions in two recent U.S. court cases. But scientists and regulators remain unconvinced.
App that shows the equivalent number of cigarettes you “smoke” a day by simply breathing in polluted air in your local area may not be applicable to wildfire smoke.
Ontario's newly revamped pot plan, which opens the door to private pot sales instead of a government run monopoly, could be the beginnings of a new tobacco industry and the foundations of a public health crisis, according to former White House drug control adviser Kevin Sabet.
Blood samples are being collected at Capital Pride this weekend as part of an effort to overturn a blanket ban on blood donations from sexually active gay and bisexual men.
Statistics Canada says Canadians are on track to spend almost $6 billion on pot this year, as consumption of both legal and illegal varieties is growing steadily.
Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family said in a statement on Friday, a year after the Vietnam War hero announced his prognosis.
A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was accused of grabbing a woman's behind and arrested on Friday on a sex abuse charge, but said the allegation "does not reflect" who he is or his values.
Gwyneth Paltrow-backed lifestyles brand Goop is making a push into Canada, but critics say it promotes practices including vaginal steaming and coffee enemas that have no proven medical benefits.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is set to sue the Ontario government over its decision to change the sex-ed curriculum for elementary students just weeks before classes resume.
The requirement to get a licence every time a doctor wants to go to another province to work is unnecessary red tape that disproportionately affects rural communities, according to some doctors.
The Ontario government says it has released an interim sex-ed curriculum for elementary school teachers to use this September, and Premier Doug Ford is suggesting there will be consequences if they don't adhere to it.
Ministry says 10 Ebola patients who received first experimental treatment are doing well, while health-care workers struggle to contain the spread of the deadly virus through a vaccination campaign.
Diabetes Canada announced last week it was cutting 20 per cent of its staff across the country, while it and other health charities make changes to try and stay financially viable.
Dalhousie University has confirmed it was told by the Saudi Cultural Bureau that the deadline for withdrawal of Saudi medical residents has been extended to Sept. 22.
The B.C. First Nations Health Authority has secured a $2.5 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to identify promising models for harm reduction services for opioid use in First Nations communities across the province.
After the Air Canada plane landed in Copenhagen, Tom and Jane Jakobszen immediately approached baggage claim and found their suitcase carrying Tom's portable dialysis machine. But when they opened it, the machine was gone.
As smoky skies from the wildfires burning throughout B.C. persist, air quality has continued to plummet around the province, including in Metro Vancouver.
The number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died, says the World Health Organization.
A group that represents U.K. hospitals and ambulance services has warned that its members may run out of drugs if Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement on future relations.
Hundreds of health professionals from across the country have heard how Indigenous patients are still waiting for equitable access to treatment.
Health Canada has added eight more products to its recall of certain medications containing valsartan, a drug used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, after probable carcinogens were found in some.
Harm reduction workers say they will open an unsanctioned overdose prevention site in Parkdale on Monday, just weeks after the province announced it would “pause” funding for future sites across the province.
The Canadian Medical Association has called for a single regulatory system for medical and recreational marijuana, but other stakeholders say a separate stream protects patients and encourages research.
The government introduced the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in May 2017 to provide some amnesty for drug users - but a year after the legislation was passed, many people are still too scared to call for help because they fear arrest.
More smoky, hazy air is expected to blanket much of the province today as nearly 600 wildfires continue to rage across British Columbia.
Many people have embraced low carbohydrate diets to lose weight, but they may be putting their long-term health at risk by eating too much animal protein and fat.
Hundreds of cancer patients in dozens of hospitals may not have received the full amount of chemotherapy drug prescribed to them, a review commissioned by Cancer Care Ontario has found.
Trump administration also wants to cut production quotas of most-abused opioids, including oxycodone and fentanyl.
Police in Connecticut are swarming a city park near Yale University and searching people's homes for drugs in an effort to prevent more overdoses from a suspected bad batch of "K2" synthetic marijuana after the number of overdose victims rose to 76 in New Haven.
