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Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announced Friday morning that the state-owned corporation will be a thing of the past if he is elected this fall. He says the agency put in place by the Coalition Avenir Québec is too centralized and inefficient.
With emergency funds set to run dry within weeks, front-line responders in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing escalating violence and conspiracy theories while attempting to contain the Bundibugyo Ebola strain.
Leaders in Neskantaga First Nation are seeking provincial and federal support for a new health-care facility, as the northern Ontario community's most vulnerable navigate their second evacuation this summer. The remote Ojibway community declared a state of emergency on Aug. 4, after a sewage leak at the First Nation’s only nursing station. The incident happened five days after more than 140…
Some expecting parents in Ontario are struggling to schedule routine ultrasound appointments due to growing waitlists and a shortage of sonographers. There is a 20 per cent sonographer vacancy rate in the province, according to Sonography Canada.
Hamilton's associate medical officer of health has clarified the public health department's finding there are no short- or long-term impacts linked to the grime coating city neighbourhoods in July.
Merck and Moderna report that a personalized mRNA vaccine helped prevent skin cancer from returning in high-risk patients. Observers greeted the news with enthusiasm but noted that full data from the ongoing late-stage study has yet to be released.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading at an "unprecedented speed," according to the World Health Organization. Experts say armed conflict and a lack of vaccines or treatment are among several factors complicating response efforts.
Commercial pilots and flight attendants face higher odds of dying from radiation-linked cancers than hundreds of other professions, a landmark study suggests. Researchers point to high-altitude cosmic rays, raising calls for better awareness and tailored health screenings.
Irreplaceable research samples have been destroyed, experiments delayed and lab access cut off after a four-day power outage at Western University in London, Ont., left biology researchers scrambling to protect years of work.
Child and youth mental health workers are back on the job at Lynwood Charlton Centre in Hamilton after a 10-week strike. But while workers are largely satisfied with their new contract, two say the province — which provides the majority of the funding for the centre — has largely ignored calls for greater public funding in the sector.
Six years after the spread of COVID-19 caught the world by surprise, a lab at Polytechnique Montréal is spearheading efforts to prepare Canada against future pandemics.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) is taking the owner of a seniors’ apartment building to court "as a last resort," saying he failed to address dozens of health code violations, including complaints of bed bugs and overflowing garbage.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country's history. The D.R.C.'s public health institute said in its latest report that confirmed cases had risen to 4,945.
