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The Manitoba government says a program introducing advanced care paramedics at seven locations will improve medical care for emergencies outside throughout rural and northern Manitoba.

Vancouver Coastal Health officials are urging residents, especially men who have sex with other men, to see if they are fully immunized against mpox amid a recent rise in cases.

Alberta is reporting a surge of new measles cases this week, sparking fresh calls for the provincial government to provide more detailed data and for the province's top doctor to appear publicly.

Federal parties have pitched different approaches to dealing with the toxic drug crisis in B.C. — particularly when it comes to supervised consumption sites.

Dr. Sophia Halassy is settling into her new job as an obstetrician-gynecologist at a Moncton-area hospital, helping to tackle a years-long waiting list of desperate patients. Her return home from the United States was years in the making.

Tens of billions of period products are used on a daily basis. But how climate-friendly are they and where does all the waste end up? Affordability, accessibility, stigma and policies pose as barriers to sustainable options.

Multiple pharmacists linked to Fort William Medical Pharmacy in south Thunder Bay face an additional set of misconduct allegations by the profession's Ontario regulator, including falsifying records. One pharmacist also faces allegations of taking or misappropriating drugs from the shop.

B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender says she has found “systemic discrimination” in how health authorities detain vulnerable adults who are at risk of harm.

Ontario schools are starting to issue suspensions to some of the thousands of students who aren't fully vaccinated, as the spread of measles continues, giving new urgency to calls for the province to digitize its immunization record system.

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.