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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting products including salads, cheese and meal kits.

As the health authority in Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region pushes for official bilingual status for its southernmost health facilities to improve access for English speakers, residents say bigger accessibility issues stem from a policy change ...

The federal health regulator said Friday its assessment found no evidence of a machine malfunction and the equipment performed as expected, wrote Health Canada spokesperson Mark Johnson in an emailed statement.

Annual cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a rare but dangerous bacterial infection, have hit the highest level seen in Canada in more than a decade. This rapidly-progressing illness can cause meningitis, sepsis or even death, and children and . ...

Dr. Manraj Khangura and Dr. Haroon Ahmed are international medical graduates finishing up their two years of residency training in the city. They will take on 3,000 new patients starting in September.

A private company that's received more than $184 million in public funds over the past eight years to care for some of Nova Scotia's most vulnerable people is now losing workers so quickly, remaining workers say it's a major safety issue.

Anisabeth Kaiya Danis Waswa-Rae of North Caribou Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario was used to making saves as a goaltender from the time she was six years old. Now, the 18-year-old, who went by Kaiya, is being honoured for helping save ...

The federal government will contribute $15 million to the construction of two new treatment facilities in Greater Toronto Area for first responders who are dealing with post-traumatic stress injuries.

Health Canada has slapped new terms and conditions on all of a company's paid plasma centres after multiple failed inspections where the regulator found "recurring, systemic deficiencies."

Ontario's health minister shut down one avenue of publicly funding all nurse practitioners Wednesday as the province missed a federal deadline for ensuring their medically necessary services are covered.