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 …
With last week’s confirmation from Ontario’s auditor general of a steep increase in spending on agency nurses in some hospitals, others say they’ve managed to steer clear of the trend altogether. Auditor General Nick …
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Only about 14 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers have received the new COVID-19 vaccine designed to target the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant, figures from the Department of Health show. Meanwhile, more than a third …
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 …
Public sector strikes are ramping up again this week, and now 80,000 nurses and health professionals are joining the hundreds of thousands who are already on strike. Quebec’s largest nurses’ …
Ontario’s acting auditor general says one in five patients who visited the province’s emergency departments were only there because they did not have a family doctor. Nick Stavropoulos has released …
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 …
When it comes to feeding her newborn son, Ashleigh Ottley knows it takes a village. Unable to produce enough breast milk after an emergency c-section, the 20-year-old from Chilliwack, B.C., says friends and …
A family doctor recruited to work for a decade in a northern Manitoba community left after just 16 months and is now refusing and/or neglecting to repay a $100,000 interest-free loan, …