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 …
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 …
“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 …
This story idea came from audience members, like you, who asked about the RSV vaccine. Email us your questions. We are listening: [email protected]. It’s that time of year, respiratory illnesses …
About one in nine Canadian adults have experienced long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection, according to a Statistics Canada report issued Friday. That amounts to 3.5 million Canadians, it said. Almost …
It’s another busy fall in Canadian hospitals, with emergency department closures, long wait times, and ongoing staff shortages all making headlines. The situation can turn deadly: Two people died while waiting …
If your child is sick — but doesn’t require immediate care — avoid going to the emergency room this holiday season, staff at two Montreal pediatric hospitals said on Wednesday. …
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 …
Physicians are warning that a surge in respiratory viruses is starting to clog up Quebec’s emergency rooms and many of them are well above capacity. According to Amélie Boisclair, an …
There is a lot of COVID-19 circulating in Ontario right now, and levels of both that virus and influenza are on the rise, set to peak over the holiday season, …