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With sexually transmitted infections surging to alarming levels in Canada and the U.S. over several years, a number of female entrepreneurs have moved into the condom industry, intent on making change. 

Some 100 family medicine residency training spots will be unfilled in Canada when new physicians start the next phase of their education in a few months — the continuation of an alarming trend that is exacerbating the family doctor shortage across the country and prompting a call to fix what some describe as a broken system.

Arbitrators have awarded Ontario hospital nurses additional salary increases after Bill 124 was ruled unconstitutional in November.

Cindy Gates-Dee learned from reading her late son's medical records that his "homosexual status," as noted on a screening form by a tissue specialist, meant he was declined as a high-risk donor because he'd had sex with another man in the last five years.

A glass enclosure that looks like a bus stop. A repurposed ice-fishing tent in a car park. These consumption sites designed for smoking substances are saving lives, overdose prevention workers say — and are doing so despite the financial and bureaucratic challenges setting them up.

Canada's longstanding efforts to eliminate tuberculosis suffered a setback as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Canadian health officials. In some areas, the TB response was reduced as resources were redirected.

A health centre set up near the Kharkiv region is offering physiotherapy and counselling to Ukrainian soldiers who've spent months fighting on the front lines and are dealing with mental health issues stemming from their time in battle. 

Patients and doctors are applauding the news that Canada might eventually have a national registry for breast implants, describing it as a big step for public safety, but say it should have happened long ago.

The commission that manages British Columbia's $2.5-billion health-care system is no longer seeking a court injunction against a program operated by Telus that charged thousands of dollars a year for access to care, the province's health minister says.

The Quebec government has paid significantly more for certain procedures completed in private clinics compared to those done through the public system, data released this week suggests.

More than 100 refugees have been offered jobs as continuing care assistants in Nova Scotia under a new federal program, but it’s already been two years since some were accepted into the program and they're still waiting.

As the SARS CoV-2 virus continues to evolve, yet another new subvariant has appeared in Alberta. XBB.1.16 is growing in prevalence in a number of countries, including India, where most cases have been detected so far.

A woman who coughed at a Vancouver Island grocery store employee during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has been found guilty of assault by a judge in British Columbia.

Health Canada has approved a new antibody drug to help protect babies from serious illness caused by respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

Ghana is the first country in the world to approve the R21/Matrix-M vaccine from the University of Oxford. Since then, Nigeria has conditionally approved the vaccine, and other African countries may follow suit — but WHO's yet to approve it.

A Bathurst ophthalmologist opened his clinic and surgical suite to cameras one day last week while he performed cataract surgery. Until government changes were made last fall, surgeries had to be done in a hospital.

As the jury continues to hear from witnesses about the circumstances surrounding Moses Beaver's death in Thunder Bay, Ont., they are also learning of the systemic barriers preventing change.

No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say.

A kickboxing program and a music therapy app are helping some Calgary residents fight back against Parkinson's disease.

Eye specialists say they are seeing excessive screen use driving up rates of myopia, dry eye and other vision problems — even in children. Some of the progressive conditions are irreversible and put people at higher risk for even more debilitating eye problems as they age.

With experts warning of the health risks of consuming alcohol, parents searching for strategies to keep their teenagers from drinking excessively or at all have lots of options, according to a leading Canadian addiction specialist.

First Nations people are disproportionately represented in toxic drug poisoning deaths, according to new data from the First Nations Health Authority's 2022 Toxic Drug Data for First Nations people in B.C.

Millions of people are expected to test for Alzheimer's in the coming years, yet few support services are available to help people deal with the implications of at-home genetic testing.

A northern Manitoba First Nation's brief experiment with a "dry" policy has come to a close with mixed opinions in the community and concerns over unintended side effects, such as driving people to consume more harmful substances.

The Alberta government says no decisions have been made on potential legislation that would force people with drug addiction into treatment against their will.

We're not eliminating vaping, we're eliminating flavours, says Quebec's health minister.

Nunavut's health minister says the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted efforts to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit communities, and questions remain over whether targets to stamp out the disease can be met.

A deadly, drug resistant fungus sparking concern in the United States has been detected in very small numbers in Alberta, and experts say vigilance will be key in the battle to prevent outbreaks in hospitals and care homes.

The West Island Health authority has started relocating nearly 200 residents of the Floralies LaSalle and Floralies Lachine long-term care homes, seven months after the homes were placed under trusteeship.

Nearly 600 people died from British Columbia’s toxic drug supply in the first three months of 2023, according to preliminary data released by the B.C. Coroners Service Tuesday.

As various countries continue to report high levels of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections — which cause severe illness, and in rare cases death within days — Canadian physicians are also raising alarms over a rise in serious cases this season.

New sexual assault-care training for rural medical professionals is being welcomed by those who work with survivors in northwestern Alberta.

A major shift is underway in the medical community's thinking about the contentious diagnosis of excited delirium, and medical examiners and coroners across Canada and the U.S. are starting to reject it as a cause of death in police-related incidents.

Asthma may be one of the most common chronic diseases in Canada, but experts say it can be tough to diagnose — including in adults.

Over the past few years, Health Canada has been tracking the spread of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, in the country's street drugs. Informally, it's often referred to as "tranq dope" or just the "zombie drug."

Four new specialized nurse practitioner clinics (IPS) opened this year in Montreal to ease emergency room overcrowding — but they're seeing fewer patients than expected, with staffing shortages to blame.

Most of the latest guidance around COVID-19 vaccination recommends another booster shot this spring only for higher-risk adults. What about everyone else?

After several months of delays, the Northwestern Health Unit has released a study on supervised drug consumption services in its catchment area in Ontario. While the findings support calls for such safe spaces in four communities, they also reveal concerns from the public about the implications.

Transplant scientists say storing donated lungs at a higher temperature keeps them viable for longer, and could boost the number of organ transplants.

Advocates allege in a lawsuit that a controversial Ontario long-term care law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Canadian Medical Protective Association defends doctors accused of wrongdoing. Malpractice lawyers say that shields doctors from the financial and reputational blows of court losses and professional discipline, and makes it difficult for patients to seek true accountability.

The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquillizer as an “emerging threat” when it’s mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine.

Saskatchewan medical students and the province's Official Opposition want the provincial government to make prescription contraception free. The push comes after British Columbia made the change.

Canada's pharmacists worry that a lack of data about prescription management could see a repeat of the situation with diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic, in which thousands of doses have been mailed over the border to Americans.

A B.C. private surgery clinic's legal fight died at the Supreme Court of Canada, and now the public health-care system is left to pick up the pieces.

Nova Scotia parents presented a petition to the legislature asking for the province to cover the cost of using cannabis oil to treat their daughter's seizures.

A growing number of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in medication abortions, amid fears that a court ruling last week could restrict access in the U.S.

Over the last year, the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has killed millions of birds across the country. It’s also recently been detected in some mammals, including a pet dog. That’s why scientists in Saskatchewan are trying to get ahead of the virus.

The province of Manitoba spent $35 million to buy reusable N95 respirators from a local company in 2020 to protect health-care workers during the pandemic, but three years later, only a small fraction of those masks were ever used.

A new study out of Western University shows an alarming trend of nicotine vaping among high school students. According to the study, more than a quarter of students reporting having vaped, and 12 per cent said they use nicotine vapes.