When Joey Salmingo took his newborn to an Ontario emergency room in late December, he didn’t expect him to wait eight hours to be seen by a doctor. Salmingo says it …
A growing number of health-care workers in Nova Scotia are not getting their annual flu shots, according to figures released by their employer, Nova Scotia Health. In response to a request …
Manitoba’s health minister and chief provincial public health officer made a plea to health-care workers to consider picking up shifts over the holidays, with intensive care units already stretched and an …
A nurse at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre is sounding the alarm on the situation in the hospital’s adult emergency department. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, the Manitoba Nurses …
WARNING: This story contains disturbing images of death and violence. Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 18,600 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 50,600 injured since Israel responded with a punishing bombing …
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Alberta hospitals are squeezing in extra intensive care unit beds as respiratory virus cases balloon and ICUs fill up. Alberta Health Services has added 17 adult surge beds since last week …
Debilitating toothaches. Tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket dental bills. Trips to the emergency room — and even stays in intensive care to treat life-threatening infections. Those are among …
Two people died while waiting for care at the Anna-Laberge hospital, in Châteauguay, Que., last week. Health Minister Christian Dubé, who visited the hospital on Montreal’s South Shore in the …
A B.C. doctor who was fired after refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has lost her bid to get her hospital privileges back. The Hospital Appeal Board has found that …