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The provincial government says physicians can opt out of the current fee-for-service system starting in February. The new payment model takes into account factors such as time spent with patients and the complexity of their needs.

A shortage of obstetricians in Lethbridge is being called a crisis, and it's sparking concerns about patient safety.

A Gatineau, Que. man, who is blind, has been fighting for five years to get 'talking prescription' service at his local Rexall, which the company has promised but not yet delivered.

A skilled, lifesaving ballet — that’s how Heather Haberli sees the work of her cardiac intensive care team. But for the past two years, she says it felt like the health-care system and her coping mechanisms are collapsing.

The Alberta government is moving to try to prohibit any COVID-19 mask mandates in schools, Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday morning.

Millions of Canadians are without a family doctor. While they look for a primary care provider, physicians have some tips on how to help people manage their health.

There is no known treatment for the new Sudan Ebola virus strain rapidly spreading in Uganda, but there’s hope an experimental vaccine could be going into arms in the next few weeks.

Researchers behind a large-scale nutrition study out of France say they’ve found associations between consumption of artificial sweeteners, like aspartame and sucralose, and cardiovascular disease and cancer.

The physician advocacy organization Doctors Manitoba is recommending five steps to government the group hopes will help the province recruit and retain staff in a health-care system that continues to lose workers.

Public Health Ontario says the proportion of the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Omicron subvariants in the province is growing twice as quickly as the dominant BA.5 strain.

A single mom says she's resorted to waiting outside of her daughter's north Toronto high school in case the teen needs help going to the washroom. She's looking for answers from her daughter's school and the board, She's also calling for systemic change.

Ontario is reporting 121 new COVID-19 deaths and 1,921 hospitalizations over the past seven days — the highest reported hospitalization rate since February.

The province has reached a deal to create a bridge program for internationally trained medical lab technicians. Another pilot project will see physician assistants employed in emergency departments.

Wait times can vary by hospital and depend on the time of day, but can sometimes range from two hours to 17 hours.

First responders in Thunder Bay, Ont., are expressing disappointment and concern as they approach a winter without life-saving outreach services in the northwestern Ontario city.

Saskatchewan is on track for another year-over-year increase in drug toxicity deaths.

Six schoolchildren in Uganda's capital have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago.

The Horizon Health Network has announced dramatic changes to its sexual assault nurse examiner program, including plans to increase staffing, develop a provincial education strategy, form a provincial governance committee, and a rebranding as forensic nurse examiner services.

When you have to shut down a hospital operating room because there's so much wildfire smoke your instruments can't be kept sterile, you know climate change is affecting health care.

The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first.

Children’s hospitals in Canada are seeing an increase in cases of a common respiratory virus that can cause severe illness in infants. Here's what you need to know.

On top of routine mammograms, experts say women should become familiar with their breasts and advocate for routine screening.

A Winnipeg physician says his emergency department is reaching its breaking point and, for the first time, he's thought of quitting. 

Keith Fitzpatrick says while mental health and addiction services in Labrador West have improved in recent years, much remains to be done to ensure people have good access to care.

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister says.

Canada's premier medical journal says it's eager to address the role it plays in perpetuating anti-Black racism in health care and spark the broader change needed to dismantle structural barriers to equitable care.

Earlier this month, Alberta announced new regulations for the use of psychedelics in therapy. Researchers and health-care professionals are increasingly exploring how drugs like ketamine can be used for mental health treatment.

Ken O’Leary acquired a bed sore ‘the size of an avocado’ while in an Ontario hospital — contributing to a painful death. He is one of thousands of Canadians who develop the excruciating and potentially deadly sores every year, after being admitted to hospital.

When a surgeon saw patients stuck waiting for orthopedic surgeries, he designed a better operating room that's publicly funded to do the procedures faster and more efficiently. It's a model other hospitals are interested in copying.

Susie Goulding knows what it's like to have long COVID. She's been dealing with symptoms since March 2020 and has been pushing governments to better recognize long COVID.

New Brunswick health officials retroactively removed 46 people from its COVID death totals last week even though records show 31 had the virus listed as a "cause of death" on their official death registration forms. As well, the deaths would have been counted as COVID-related deaths in other jurisdictions.

A new spa in Whitby, Ont. has closed all of its pools in the wake of reports by customers of skin rashes, flu symptoms, ear infections and inflamed lymph nodes.

Long waits for elective surgery in Canada's health-care system left one teenage boy in Peachland, B.C., feeling like “the Hunchback of Notre Dame,” he said, as he waited nearly two years for surgery to treat his scoliosis. It’s a crisis that has some doctors pushing for private care, while others urge Canadians to keep their faith in the public system.

Annette Lewis is fighting to get back on an organ transplant list after Alberta Court of King's Bench ruled in the summer that removal due to her COVID-19 unvaccinated status did not violate her charter rights.

Ontario is reporting 109 new COVID-19 deaths over the past seven days — the single highest death count since early May during the sixth wave of the pandemic

More than a million dry shampoo products from Bed Head TIGI, Dove and Tresemmé are being recalled across Canada due to the detection of a cancer-causing chemical.

Dozens of missing COVID-19 death records revealed by the New Brunswick government last week caused health officials to mislead themselves about when fatalities from last winter's Omicron wave had peaked just as they were faced with critical decisions about when to loosen health protections.

Human resources reports from B.C.'s Northern Health authority, long plagued by staffing shortages and ER closures, offer the latest glimpse into Canada's ongoing health-care crisis. 

B.C.’s health minister has introduced a long-awaited piece of legislation that will overhaul the province’s system for regulating everyone from doctors to dental hygienists, promising increased accountability for health professionals and improved transparency for the public.

Some people in Canada who are particularly vulnerable to illness from COVID-19 have a new treatment option. The antibody-based therapy Evusheld previously used to prevent the virus can now also be used as a treatment.

Ontario has quietly changed mask rules for long-term care homes, no longer requiring visitors or caregivers to wear them when alone with a resident in their room.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it will temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen for cholera, replacing it with a single dose due to vaccine shortages and rising outbreaks worldwide.

Don Mamakwa of Kasabonika Lake First Nation had a 97 per cent chance of surviving the night if he had been brought to hospital instead of a Thunder Bay, Ont., police cell in August 2014, an emergency-room physician tells an inquest.

New research from the University of Alberta tracked conspiracy theories about monkeypox on TikTok that made false claims about everything from vaccines to Bill Gates. 

Various governments pledged $2.6 billion US on Tuesday toward a global plan to again try to eradicate polio, following its comeback, the World Health Organization says.

Canada's chief public health officer said Tuesday that Canadians should get their dose of a recently authorized bivalent vaccine to stave off a fall resurgence of COVID-19 — a development that could prompt the return of some pandemic-related restrictions.

With the looming threat of firing hanging over their heads, at least one Alberta Health Services board member has resigned.

Saniya Warwaruk tried — and abandoned — pills, potions and breathing exercises in her year-long battle with insomnia. Finally, she realized her own anxiety about not sleeping was fuelling the flames.

Two new large-scale reports, one published by Statistics Canada and the other in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, are giving a clearer picture of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 infections on Canadians and the health-care system.

The parents of a sick newborn want more family access to month-old Olivia Gagnon, who's in Windsor Regional Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. However, the hospital says its rule allowing two essential caregivers in the NICU per patient is meant to protect the high-risk babies.