SAN JOSE — Emergency personnel were dispatched to a middle school Wednesday morning when several students and at least one adult experienced respiratory distress after encountering “elevated levels” of carbon …
The Ontario government is introducing new measures to crack down on cellphone use and vaping in schools as the province sees an “alarming rise” of vaping and cellphone distractions in classrooms. In an …
After last summer’s heat waves, deadly floods and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to help their patients better prepare for climate change-related extreme weather and natural …
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When doctors told Karen Ganong she needed a double lung transplant she thought they had the wrong person. What started as a cough in April last year, resulted in several …
It’s back to the negotiating table for the Quebec government and the provinces’ largest nurses’ union, Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), after union members voted against the tentative …
On a Thursday in January, Normand Meunier arrived at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Que., with a respiratory virus. Weeks later, he would emerge with a severe bedsore that would eventually lead him …
No medical staff checked Darrell Mesheau’s vital signs in the roughly two and a half hours before he died waiting for care at the Fredericton hospital’s emergency department, a coroner’s …
B.C.’s health minister has announced a spring COVID-19 booster campaign, with shots recommended for seniors, Indigenous people over 55 and long-term care home residents in particular. Invitations to book a …
On March 25, American officials published an urgent announcement: Dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico were falling sick. The cows had low appetites, and produced less milk than …