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Dropping the screening age is something experts, advocates and survivors have been waiting a long time for. But they are worried the province is not doing enough to let women in their mid-forties know they now qualify.

Two charities that help organ transplant patients say it's time that provincial governments rethink the way they offer housing support for patients who must temporarily move to access treatment.

Parents of children with disabilities are sounding the alarm as Quebec trims $570 million from its education budget. They fear cuts to specialists and support staff will deeply impact vulnerable students.

Christie Brulhart can make decisions now as a nurse practitioner in a small Alberta village. That wasn't the case during the pandemic.

Lynn Paulin didn't expect she'd be forced to make end-of-life medical decisions for her mom at just 32. But being there while her mom took her last breath allowed Paulin to pay back some of the same care she'd received all her life.

Researchers working on treatments and cures for long COVID are closely watching newly signed Winnipeg Jets forward Jonathan Toews's healing journey. Toews is returning to the NHL this coming season after a two-year absence, as he worked to manage ...

The latest best-selling novels might be in your stack of beach reads, but could reading them benefit your mental health? That's the idea behind bibliotherapy, the concept of reading as a therapeutic method to improve our well-being.

With measles outbreaks, avian influenza and syphilis and HIV on the rise, Canada needs to strengthen its disease surveillance systems as cuts to U.S. health institutions threaten access to crucial monitoring data, experts say in an editorial ...

The small northern town of Stewart, B.C., is without ambulance service until further notice, drawing concerns from the district's mayor and the paramedics union. B.C. Emergency Services says "some" shifts have been filled.

As the Calgary Stampede kicks off, health experts are warning about the risk of measles exposure and are urging parents with babies and unimmunized children - along with other vulnerable Albertans - to sit this one out.