New data shows that the number of people with dementia is rapidly growing in Ontario and doctors are urging the province to invest in home care now to meet their …
Disgraced family doctor Arcel Bissonnette has had his licence revoked two months after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting five female patients at his practice southeast of Winnipeg. The College of Physicians …
Canada is seeing a record number of cases of invasive Group A strep, a bacterial infection that kills roughly one in 10 people who contract it, according to data obtained by …
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions and images. The Current19:15What a Canadian doctor saw in Gaza A Canadian eye surgeon has described removing shrapnel from children’s shattered eyeballs during a …
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Seven years ago, Stanley Much left his one-bedroom apartment on a busy Edmonton street to move into a seniors’ lodge in the village of Holden, about 100 kilometres southeast of …
The 12-bed hospital in New-Wes-Valley, N.L. — population 2,000 — found itself at the centre of a heated debateabout staff shortages in rural health care when the province signed a contract to …
COVID-19 has killed 17 more New Brunswickers, including six over the holidays, while influenza has claimed nine lives. These are the first flu deaths of the season and they include a child under four, the latest …
Ethan Crann is frustrated with Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care system’s lack of clear answers for filling prescriptions for controlled substances without a primary-care provider. (Mike Moore/CBC) A St. John’s man …
Health officials say Influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are both on the rise in B.C., and hospitals in the province are treating a record number of patients as the respiratory …