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Barb Bobychuk says when paramedics assessed her 89-year-old mother-in-law for a fall but did not take her to the hospital, she shouldn't have been charged a fee.

To get out of Donald Trump's tariff threat, Ottawa is downplaying its role in the fentanyl trade, while promising more monitoring at the border. But U.S. officials who've worked on this issue, including one for Trump, say it needs structural reforms ...

Over their lifetime, people with cancer and their caregivers face nearly $33,000 in costs like medications, transportation to hospital and accommodation as well as lost income, the Canadian Cancer Society reports.

Montreal Public Health says hundreds of people may have been exposed to measles between Nov. 23 and Nov. 26. during and after a recent NATO conference held in the city. According to the health agency, places of exposure to measles include the Palais ...

Despite the warnings of experts, there are growing conversations around the supposed benefits of raw milk. Microbiologists say the evidence clearly shows drinking unpasteurized milk is far riskier and may lead to harmful outcomes.

Ian Stedman champions using artificial intelligence to diagnose more people with rare diseases after it took him 32 years and extraordinary effort to pinpoint his own rare disease. Now eastern Ontario's children's hospital is doing just that.

A Nova Scotia collaborative care clinic is shrinking patient wait times, and serving as a possible model to solve Atlantic Canada's health-care crisis, by housing doctors and nurses, mental health clinicians, blood services, and a host of other ...

Laura O'Byrne has countless fibroids -- growths around her uterus, which itself is three times larger than normal -- and a large ovarian cyst. But she's met a number of roadblocks in treating her issues, including being dismissed by a Nova Scotia ...

Amid a 35 per cent jump in HIV cases across Canada, the numbers have stabilized in northwestern Ontario -- and health-care workers say it's largely due to harm reduction services in the region. Here's what local health-care workers say is working in ...

Sixty-three per cent of women with disabilities who experienced homelessness said it was because of violence, compared with 54 per cent of women without disabilities, said a joint statement from The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the federal .. ...