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 …
As Tim Brooks left a hospital washroom where garbage and urine had spread on the floor, he saw a partially dressed patient on a stretcher in the emergency department. Brooks covered the …
Quebec’s emergency room doctors are calling on the province’s Health Ministry to step up and take action as ERs grow more overcrowded and patients suffer while waiting for care. In …
A newly published peer-reviewed study found that mistreatment of medical residents in the Maritimes remains common and underreported. From October to November 2021, all 645 medical residents associated with Dalhousie University were …
Compared to urban dwellers, rural Canadians are more vulnerable to climate change in many ways and face extra challenges to adaptation, says a new federal government report. The “Canada in a …
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 …
This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can …
A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatized people in Gaza and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will …
Labrador resident Scott Russell had been in such intense pain and near starvation — he had lost about 90 pounds, or nearly half of his weight — that his wife drove …
“They should not be let in.” This is the advice given by a B.C. infectious disease expert for this holiday season if a dinner guest shows up coughing on the …