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Health Canada will announce Thursday that it has approved a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 Omicron variant, sources tell Radio-Canada.

The head of the World Health Organization says Canada’s “sustained, downward trend” of monkeypox cases is “encouraging” to see.

The province's four regional health authorities will review thousands of diagnostic images stretching back to 2018, following last week's announcement from Central Health that it discovered possible problems with the way its employees were screening patients for breast cancer.

A long-anticipated three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline will come online in 2023, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said Wednesday.

U.S. regulators have cleared updated COVID-19 boosters targeting newest variants, with shots expected to roll out this week.

Ontario patients who refuse to leave a hospital for a long-term care home not of their choosing will not be forced to pay $1,800 per day, Premier Doug Ford says, but it's not clear how much they might be forced to fork over if they refuse a transfer.

It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts are slowing in a handful of countries.

A suspected poisoning at a Markham, Ont., restaurant has left at least 12 people seriously ill — with four of those needing intensive care in hospital — and the culprit could be a substance sometimes used in traditional Chinese medicine, according to health experts.

A national advisory group has published new proposed guidelines around the number of drinks consumed each week, finding that having more than six drinks per week leads to a high risk of health issues including cancer.

Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, a key group of experts in the province's response to the ongoing pandemic, confirmed Friday that it will be dissolved early next month.

People across the province say an ongoing staffing crisis in Nova Scotia hospitals is having more serious consequences than just long wait times.

As students make their way onto Canadian post-secondary campuses for a new term, some may be facing starkly different pandemic protocols than when they last left. A patchwork of approaches is emerging, depending on the college or university.

Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years before the pandemic.

Advocates are gearing up for legal battles against Ontario's plan to move elderly and chronically ill patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes, with lawyers warning the proposed change is a breach of patients' human rights.

Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.

The Ford government faces mounting pressure to clarify how a new piece of legislation could affect Ontario families, since it would allow hospital patients to be moved to a long-term care facility not of their choosing or potentially face hefty daily fees.

Toronto Public Health is reporting a meningococcal disease outbreak that has left one person dead. The heath unit says it has confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease in three individuals between 20 and 30 years old.

The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped by 21 per cent in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and a possible signal the outbreak in Europe may be starting to decline, according to a new report from the World Health Organization.

A new study shows that Alberta, B.C. and Ontario saw more kids hospitalized for cannabis poisonings after edibles were legalized.

As communities across British Columbia struggle with a shortage of both ambulances and paramedics, many volunteer fire departments find themselves filling in the gaps, providing emergency medical services to small towns that are often situated an hour or more away from the nearest hospital.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Tuesday the appointment of a federal chief nursing officer tasked with helping the government address what the minister called an ongoing "health care crisis."

Opioids killed more people in Ontario in the second year of the pandemic compared to the first, but the province saw a drop in those deaths this past March, newly released data shows.

COVID-19 vaccines aimed at both the original strain and Omicron variants are expected in Canada this fall. But messaging on booster doses has been mixed across the country.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.

Moderna says it will supply Canada with 12 million doses of its COVID-19 bivalent vaccine.

Last year, the Ottawa Paramedic Service took 72,000 patients to hospitals and spent 49,000 hours in offload delay — waiting to transfer over the care of a patient. During the first five months of 2022, they've already spent 25,000 hours waiting.

The current staffing crisis has reignited debate over privatization of the Canadian health-care system, but while more needs to be done to take the pressure off hospitals, critics say more private care is not a "simple solution" to the problem.

On Aug. 21, Dr. Alika Lafontaine takes over as president of the Canadian Medical Association, becoming its first Indigenous leader. He spoke with Dr. Brian Goldman about struggling with learning challenges as a child, working as an Indigenous doctor, and how these experiences motivate him.

A group of senior care advocates and critics are warning planned changes to the long-term care sector are a fundamental violation of patient rights.

Health Canada has approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for children aged five to 11.

A new study finds ambulance use in Ontario increased significantly in the years leading up to the pandemic, outpacing the growth in both population and hospital emergency room visits by other means.

Some children haven't received their routine vaccinations, especially school-aged children, experts say. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many school-based vaccine programs.

Parents are urged not to panic-buy pain and fever medications, and instead speak to a pharmacist, as some stores across Canada run low on children's acetaminophen and ibuprofen products.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered what they describe as a "weak spot" in all major variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 — a revelation they believe could open the door for treatments to fight current and future mutations.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones's plan to stabilize the health-care system includes increasing surgeries performed at private clinics but covered by OHIP, covering the exam and registration fees for internationally trained nurses, and sending patients waiting for a long-term care bed to a home not of their choosing.

Pronvincial data shows that only 56 per cent of all eligible Quebecers have gotten their first booster dose. Experts think they know why.

As monkeypox keeps spreading, so does misinformation about how this virus transmits. Here's what scientists know — and don't — about monkeypox transmission.

The new spots are aimed at enticing graduates to finish their training in Newfoundland and Labrador — and stay after they're done.

Manitoba's Prairie Mountain Health has issued a drug alert after a street drug sample tested positive for benzodiazepine, which can be dangerous when paired with an opioid like fentanyl but unlike opioids, cannot be treated by naloxone.

Some former blood donors in Thunder Bay say they’re frustrated that Canadian Blood Services is appealing for donors while failing to offer clinics in the northwestern Ontario city.

To wait or not to wait? That's the question right now for some people when it comes to getting another COVID-19 booster shot.

Toronto’s SickKids Hospital is advising parents of changes to access to some over-the-counter medicine for children, due to a nationwide supply shortage of Advil and Tylenol.

"We will not allow — without a major fight — the for-profit privatization of Ontario's hospitals," the group's executive director said on Tuesday.

Jacelyn Wingerter got into the nursing profession to help people, not knowing she’d feel “defeated” after less than a year on the job.

Nearly 300 nursing home beds in New Brunswick are vacant because the homes don't have enough employees to take care of more residents.

British health authorities are the first to approve Moderna's combination "bivalent" COVID-19 vaccine.

Some gay activists are expressing frustration over what they believe is a reluctance by policymakers and public health officials to target gay men with messaging about the risks of infection and what they see as the need to curb some sexual activity.

In 2020, the NDP made an election pledge to create the province's second medical faculty, with its first cohort of students starting next year. Patients and advocates are asking whether it's on track.

A foreign-educated nurse has won an appeal and will be allowed to work in Manitoba — a significant development overruling the provincial nursing regulator, which repeatedly denied her a licence unless she undertook a test of her nursing competence. 

Jennifer DeCoste says she felt it was urgent to get her results after a second mammogram last month at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish, which was followed by an unexpected breast ultrasound on the same day.