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The president of the Personal Care Home Owners Association says a recent auditor general report on the industry in Newfoundland and Labrador is "somewhat accurate," but also that residents in his homes were "taken aback" by the findings.

A team of researchers from the University of Saskatchewan wants to help mothers with HIV raise healthy babies. The team is looking into the accessibility and feasibility of donated breast milk for HIV-exposed infants.

A call from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew for scientists in the U.S. to consider moving here has researchers in this province demanding more funding to give those who relocate a reason to stay.

Cancer patients in British Columbia will no longer be referred to clinics in Bellingham, Wash., for care, Health Minister Josie Osborne announced Monday.

Alberta's government will soon tie public hospital funding to the number and type of procedures performed, a move critics warn won't improve the public system and will only accelerate private delivery.

Ontario's measles outbreak has become so big that public health officials in New York state have included the province in a travel advisory that urges residents to get vaccinated before visiting.

Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist and a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health, shares the $3 US million prize with four colleagues from the United States and Denmark.

Horizon Health has unveiled what the Holt government is calling the first of 30 promised collaborative care clinics that aim to transform the delivery of primary care in New Brunswick.

Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off thousands of health researchers.

There is a window of relief for British Columbia farmers from the devastating waves of avian flu, leaving them to assess the toll of outbreaks spanning more than three years that saw millions of birds culled at hundreds of farms. But they also worry what the next migration of wild birds will bring this year.

A Texas county is the epicentre of a measles outbreak that started in late January and continues to swell, with nearly 500 cases in the state alone.

Canadians say they're stressed about current events. Experts say there are key steps we can all take — like accepting there are some things beyond our individual control — to learn to live with large-scale global events.

What would it take to bring American scientists north? Increasing research funding — as well as costs for things that make research possible — would be a good start, say experts. 

Recent city data shows the number of non-fatal suspected overdoses paramedics respond to has declined over the last six months.

A Thunder Bay, Ont., family says they're appealing Indigenous Services Canada's decision to deny their funding request to cover applied behaviour analysis therapy for their four-year-old daughter, who has autism. The family says the lack of federal coverage and the years-long waitlist to get into provincial programming are putting their daughter at risk of regression.

Health officials in three Ontario hotspots for measles are focusing on communication and vaccination to help get the outbreaks under control.

Crown prosecutors argued that Farshad Khojsteh Kashani sexually assaulted seven complainants during vaginal-tightening treatments at Fab Skin Care on Kingsway.

An independent report detailing the “choices and mistakes” that led to the overdose death of a first-year University of Victoria student in January 2024 has been released, casting new light on the circumstances of the incident and her parent’s fight for transparency in the year since.

Nova Scotia's health authority says it has hired one doctor eager to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump, and is in talks with more than two dozen more.

After CBC Toronto was first to report on a Toronto gynecologist linked to potential exposure to bloodborne infections, several patients reached out with their own negative experiences with the doctor. Many of them were new to Canada, and said not knowing the language or the medical system made it harder for them to complain.