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The federal government will require travellers arriving from China, Hong Kong or Macao to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test before their departure. 

Advocates for reducing suicide deaths in B.C.’s Lower Mainland say crisis phones on bridges across the region have helped provide critical support for people in their worst moments of anguish.

Major winter storms across Canada have negatively impacted supplies at Canadian Blood Services blood banks.

When Darleen Murdoch suffered a severe manic episode while on vacation in Hawaii, a doctor told the family she would never work again. But here is what she’s learned about medical miracles.

A personal support worker who faced deportation to Uganda despite working on the front lines during COVID-19 over the past three years has been granted a brief reprieve, days after CBC Toronto reported on her plight.

The federal government's ongoing review of the Cannabis Act emphasizes protecting public health — but experts and industry insiders say it also has to find a way to boost the legal marijuana industry and help it compete with the illicit market.

Philips Morris International, producer of Marlboro cigarettes, has pulled its shares from Canada's vaccine collaborator, Medicago. The company's COVID-19 vaccine, Covifenz, can now hit international markets if it reapplies with the World Health Organization, an expert says.

Six countries, including Italy and the U.S., have announced testing requirements for passengers from China, as the country continues to be accused of not being forthcoming about the virus.

Ontario pharmacies will officially be able to assess and prescribe medication for 13 common ailments as of Jan. 1. People will not be required to pay out of pocket for pharmacist visits.

Social behaviour is a big indicator of whether the COVID-19 pandemic is considered to be over, even if there are 30 deaths daily, says Dr. Samir Gupta, a Toronto respirologist.

Canadians who were caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine rules racked up at least $15 million in fines this year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, but it's not clear how much of that will actually be paid.

Chinese people who have been cut off from the rest of the world for three years by COVID-19 curbs flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening, even as rising infections strained the health system and roiled the economy.

Emergency rooms at 13 hospitals in rural B.C. were closed for the equivalent of around four months in 2022, according to data analyzed by CBC News. Mayors say the problem will likely continue if the province does not significantly invest in health care and prioritize rural residents.

Leaders from an Oji-Cree First Nation in Treaty 9 in Ontario says they want the Canadian government to take action to properly compensate all their community members enduring a long-term boil-water advisory, after learning most of them won't be eligible for a class action settlement.

The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation fears for his community’s safety amid a critical nursing shortage at nursing stations across the province over the holidays.

Marathon and Olympic competitors who live in Hamilton manage a running group that meets at the Bayfront every Tuesday for training, and members also benefit from getting advice for hitting the streets in winter.

As COVID-19 approaches its fourth year, Omicron continues to mutate and become more immune evasive. But what does mutation mean, what doesn't it mean and why does immune evasiveness matter? Here are some answers based on what we know at this stage in the pandemic.

Many provinces have turned to virtual care as a way of taking pressure off their strained health-care systems, and hospitals have been able to divert patients from crowded emergency departments. But a new agreement in Ontario could mean fewer doctors will be interested in providing such services.

Lee-Anne Richardson knows first-hand how difficult the holidays can be for people on the path of sobriety. Work parties and family gatherings can be minefields.

Students doing graduate-level research say Canada risks losing its future scientists to other countries because the dollar amounts of annual grants have remained stagnant for nearly 20 years.

Saskatchewan residents who call 911 during a mental health crisis, and RCMP officers trying to defuse a potentially deadly confrontation will now be able to receive advice from a psychiatric nurse, the Mounties say.

A woman who allegedly faked a nursing licence to work at a long-term care home in Gander was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail for the death of her four-year-old son in Hamilton, Ont.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is not looking at bringing back a mask mandate for federally-regulated industries.

A Facebook post asking for a surrogate led Toronto mom Karen Scutt to Cindy Gilbank, who carried a daughter for her. More than two years later, the two women's families share a lasting bond.

A new law, Bill S-206, carves out a narrow exemption in the Criminal Code to allow jurors to speak about jury proceedings with health care professionals.

A health and safety consultant who teaches people how to administer naloxone is calling a recently updated City of Edmonton policy on naloxone “an absolute failure.”

The holidays can be a time to celebrate but for some people, the holidays may bring stress or sadness. Mental health and mindfulness experts suggest mindfulness practices this holiday season.

The one-nurse emergency room in the remote community of Alert Bay — off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island — has shut down until January due to no staff. It's just the latest example of a 'broken' health-care system that showed cracks during the pandemic. Critics say it will take smart spending to fix.

A young teenage girl in Chatham-Kent approached the health unit for birth control and left empty handed because she couldn't afford to pay for it.

The country only defines COVID-related deaths as those who died from pneumonia or respiratory failure, which underestimates the death toll, says WHO.

Leaders of an Indigenous community near London, Ont., are calling on the federal government to work with them to help solve chronic water supply problems after a state of emergency was issued Tuesday due to low water levels.

Hundreds of Manitobans waiting for a hip or knee replacement will be getting a letter in the mail to encourage them to consider leaving the province for their operation.

Nunavik midwife Akinsie Qumaluk handled surprise twins, haemorrhaging and no access to emergency planes in her community of Puvirnituq.

A Tillsonburg, Ont., mother says she was surprised her toddler was released from SickKids in Toronto just 48 hours after he had open-heart surgery this month, and worries overcrowding at the hospital was behind him being discharged earlier than she had expected.

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it's responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems. The hospital says all patient care continues and there is currently no evidence that personal health information has been compromised.

The B.C.'s government says that almost all surgeries delayed during five waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have now been completed.

If a patient in Nunavik requires specialized medical care, they have to get on a plane and travel more than 1,400 kilometres to Montreal. But a new regional hospital proposed in Kuujjuaq, Que., could help keep some patients closer to home.

A Saint John-based counsellor says the number of health-care workers seeking mental health help is on the rise. As staffing pressures increase, and with the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, Katina Feggos says health-care workers are now making up a majority of her clients.

For some people with long COVID, the symptoms are so severe they are unable to work. Some Nova Scotians say government is not providing enough supports.

Ullivik, located near Montreal’s airport, was intended to serve as a place of healing for the hundreds of Inuit who come to the city every month for treatment. But in recent years, providing a welcoming environment has been a challenge.

Nova Scotia Public Health is declaring an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Shirreff Hall, a residence at Dalhousie University, after two cases were detected including a student who died suddenly.

A long term-care home in Saskatoon is providing a place for powerful exchanges between residents and Grade 6 students in an intergenerational classroom and through other activities designed to keep residents from being bored, lonely and feeling helpless.

With influenza sending Canadian children to hospital at rates far above normal for this time of year, there are calls for provincial health systems to be more transparent about pediatric flu deaths and the severity of communicable diseases because it can help people protect themselves and in this case, their kids.

COVID-19 has shone a brighter light on loss of smell, but some Canadians, like Kerri Wall, lost their sense of smell well before the pandemic.

A New Brunswick woman is demanding answers after her 88-year-old mother, who's in hospital awaiting a nursing home bed, was moved into a cramped room filled with supplies. 

This year, a highly contagious strain of avian influenza tore across Canada, hitting close to 270 farms and production facilities and infecting millions of birds. Scientists worry ongoing, explosive global outbreaks pose threats to bird populations and potentially to human health.

After her surgery, Ishbel Moore was walking down the hospital hallway when she came to a junction. To her left was labour and delivery. To her right was palliative care. It felt like a metaphor for Ishbel’s life in that moment – somewhere between motherhood and death.

Montreal Public Health said Friday that two children, both under the age of two, have died as a result of complications related to invasive group A streptococcus infections, and Canadian doctors are suggesting parents know the signs of severe illness from the common bacteria.

People in Nova Scotia are hosting sober parties while more people become interested in the idea of sobriety.

Canada's abundant supply of Paxlovid, the potentially life-saving COVID-19 treatment, has largely gone unused — an oversight that experts say has likely caused a number of unnecessary deaths.

Millions of highly sensitive personal health records about people accessing health care in B.C. have been left "disturbingly" vulnerable to leaks after the provincewide health authority failed to address security concerns in recent years, a new report has found.

The federal government is seeking to delay an expansion of its medical assistance in dying (MAID) law, which was set to include those suffering solely from mental illnesses starting in March.

Nursing homes in New Brunswick are still dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks, prompting calls for more protective measures as the holidays approach.