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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Canada's top doctor said Thursday that it's imperative everyone eligible for a booster dose gets their third shot now before the new, more infectious Omicron variants take hold in the coming weeks.

Parents who spoke to CBC News say they've put their lives on hold, waiting for a chance to vaccinate their children who are under five years old. But there is no certainty on when a vaccine might become available to the youngest Canadians.

Canada will require that companies add nutrition warnings to the front of pre-packaged food with high levels of saturated fat, sugar or sodium in an effort to help shoppers make healthier choices with just a glance.

People at high risk of severe disease from COVID-19 infection should be offered a booster shot this fall, regardless of how many boosters they've previously received, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization said on Wednesday.  

A proposed $150-million settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada covering all provinces and territories has been reached for the recovery of health-care costs related to the sale and marketing of opioid-based pain medication.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccine committee has voted that the next wave of COVID booster shots should include a component that targets the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in addition to the original strain. If all goes well, vaccine manufacturers could roll out these new versions in the U.S. in October.

The World Health Organization says sustained transmission of monkeypox worldwide could see the virus move into high-risk groups, such as children and pregnant people, as it investigates reports of mild cases among kids in the U.K. and Europe.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the much-criticized ArriveCan app could help speed up border bottlenecks and may have uses beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human cadavers are a key teaching tool for future doctors and dentists, but in some medical schools, donations have dropped since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials are now reminding people that body donations are important for research and education.

Online triage, rapid assessment zones, and more accountability could decrease record-high wait times at emergency rooms.

Two pet rabbits infected with a highly contagious virus that's newly detected in Ontario have died, causing concern among veterinarians and pet owners. The virus has previously been found in Alberta and B.C., according to the CFIA.

Canada handled the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered the ensuing upheaval better than several other nations with comparable health-care and economic infrastructure, a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests.

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored, but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency.

After schools closed in March 2020 as a result of the pandemic, school-based immunization programs — which vaccinate kids against a host of preventable diseases — were suspended. Now, provinces are trying to bring those who fell through the cracks up to speed on their shots.

Regulators in the United States have ordered Juul to pull its vaping products from the market, a move already being challenged by the company. Here's a closer look at the FDA's decision and what's happening in Canada.

The World Health Organization convened its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiralling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency.

U.S. federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.

Peter Kelly is among more than 200 Canadians and counting who've caught monkeypox. He spent weeks isolating at home to keep others' safe, putting strain on his finances and mental health. Advocates now say more supports are needed — as this outbreak keeps growing.

The timing of your next COVID-19 vaccine may be more important than ever as highly contagious Omicron subvariants are on the rise in Canada and waning immunity from previous vaccination and infection threatens to fuel another surge.

Two Montreal women are calling for systemic change after being denied toxicology screenings to confirm their drinks had been spiked.

With pandemic restrictions lifted, Canadians are planning long-awaited memorial services to say goodbye to their loved ones — some, after two years of delays.

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday voted to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months, making it likely a nationwide rollout can start next week.

While social media platforms have become a haven for disabled people looking to connect, they are also brimming with discussions of trauma. Balancing the search for support with cultivating bits of joy has become a key challenge for many disabled people.

Across the country, students have dealt with ongoing disruptions due to the pandemic — from cancelled school clubs and events to changing cohorts and online learning. Both health-care professionals and students have noticed the impact a lack of socialization has had on mental health.

A number of Paramed employees in London, Ont., are raising concerns about wages, hours, gas mileage and dispatching staff other than a personal support worker (PSW) to do the job.

The World Health Organization supports coming up for a new name for monkeypox, amid a call from a group of scientists to use less discriminatory terminology to describe the infections popping up in more and more places around the globe.

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized coronavirus vaccines for children under five years of age. Canadian children under five cannot yet be vaccinated against COVID-19, as Health Canada is still reviewing Moderna's vaccine submission.

Patients in emergency rooms around Ontario are waiting record lengths of time to get admitted to hospital, a situation medical professionals say only appears to be getting worse.

There are an estimated 390,000 people in Canada with post-COVID condition, better known as long COVID. A growing number are looking for a specialized clinic to treat their symptoms, but there are not enough doctors or money to tackle the demand, experts say.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside vaccine advisers have voted unanimously in favour of authorizing both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children between six months and five years of age.

High school students across Canada will soon be learning how to administer naloxone nasally, in case of an opioid overdose. The new training will be initially deployed in select schools in Quebec, Alberta, Ontario and B.C., before being expanded across the country.

In some provinces, people with cochlear implants are on the hook for thousands of dollars to upgrade their sound processors every few years to continue hearing, leading to calls for governments to cover the cost.

Although monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, the vaccine approved for use in Canada is different from the jabs used to eradicate smallpox last century.

An organization that works with schools across Canada to create CPR and defibrillator training programs is now looking to offer naloxone training programs for teachers and high school students. 

With 132 confirmed cases in Quebec, the province’s public health director says the spread of monkeypox is slowly progressing every day and now vaccination efforts are expanding to men have sex with other men in Montreal.

The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee on Thursday next week to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.

Health Canada has approved an experimental drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, as uncertainty persists about the drug's clinical benefit.

The federal government will be shutting down the COVID Alert app and may do so as early as this week, government sources have told CBC News.

Canada needs to act fast to get the monkeypox outbreak under control by scaling up testing, identifying cases quickly and solving key unanswered questions about the origin and ongoing spread of the virus before it takes root here and puts our most vulnerable at risk, public health experts say.

Family members of a woman who was in long-term care want to know why it took nearly a month to be told she had died. The care home said it can’t comment on the case because of privacy legislation but that when a resident dies, “it follows all proper procedures for notification of substitute decision makers and powers of attorney as outlined in the resident’s chart.”

The federal government announced Friday it will end the mandatory randomized arrival testing for incoming travellers at Canada's airports, a move that comes as the U.S. is also signalling it will ease up on some testing requirements.

Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.

Ontario's top doctor says he is planning for a new round of COVID-19 booster doses to be rolled out this fall as the province is set to lift most mask mandates in high-risk settings on Saturday.

The COVID-19 recovery program at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare costs in the range of $450,000 a year to run, and the hospital's CEO says it can't continue long-term without provincial funding.

The waning effectiveness of vaccines to stop the spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 could mean it's time for federal policy makers to consider lifting vaccine mandates, some experts suggest.

In this unprecedented monkeypox outbreak — which is offering many global clinicians their first real-world experience with this disease — there's a clear range in symptom severity.

Two Oakville, Ont., sisters are waiting to get a random COVID-19 border test more than a week after returning home from a vacation, amid calls for the federal government to stop random testing at airports.

Experts drafted by the World Health Organization said their understanding of how the coronavirus emerged was limited by several factors, including that not all research presented by Chinese scientists has been published.

More than two years into the pandemic, Dr. Neeja Bakshi is still routinely breaking the painful news to families that their loved one is dying of COVID-19. And it's not going anywhere, she warns: Alberta's COVID-related death toll so far in 2022 is higher than the same period in previous years of the pandemic.

The head of Ontario's expert pandemic advisory table says while key indicators suggest COVID-19 in the province is improving, he would have liked to have seen all remaining mask mandates in high-risk settings in place for a little while longer.

Garth Mullins, who grew up in Yellowknife and now advises the B.C. government on decriminalization, says the decision won't stop people from dying, since it doesn't address safe supply, but it's the first step toward treating drug use as a health matter instead of a criminal one.

Public transit passengers will no longer have to wear a mask as of June 18 in Quebec, Health Minister Christian Dubé announced Wednesday.