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Hundreds lined up as early as 2 a.m. in the cold Wednesday after word got around that a doctor is setting up a new family medicine practice in Walkerton, in a scene that illustrates Ontario's severe family doctor shortage in rural areas.

Florence Girard's caregiver told the coroner's inquest she had to reduce the frequency of pain medication and switch to a cheaper, less potent painkiller partially because Kinsight Community Society didn't pay for the prescribed medicine.

Dr. Emil Prikryl, a medical officer of health with N.L. Health Services, says besides influenza, there’s COVID-19, RVS and hMVP floating around the province.

U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the additive called red dye No. 3 from the nation's food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.

The future of Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination program is unclear as the federal government shifts responsibility for the immunizations to the provinces this summer.

The new Fort St. James hospital serves a region that is more than one-third Indigenous, and the building  — which replaces a series of trailers built in the 1970s — reflects that.

Over the past two years, Ottawa has clawed back more than $3 million from Nova Scotia because some patients are paying out of pocket for MRI and ultrasound. The clawbacks are likely to grow as private imaging clinics proliferate.

Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton have partnered with local drop-in centre The Hub for a pilot program that offers discharged patients a warm place to go.

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived experience are proposing a major change to how obesity is diagnosed because they say current medical approaches don't reliably assess an individual's health.

The woman who was supposed to be caring for Florence Girard before she died of starvation in 2018 says Girard would go into a "meltdown" every time she was supposed to go to the doctor or receive medical care.

A federal election is potentially only months away and two of the Liberal government's landmark social programs are not fully in place. The majority of planned dental care recipients are still not eligible, and no deals have been signed with provinces and territories to pay for contraceptive and diabetes medications.

Catherine, Princess of Wales, said she was relieved to be in remission on Tuesday after visiting the London hospital where she received treatment for cancer to thank all the medics and staff there.

Two Saskatchewan families want their nightmare stay at a resort in Mexico to serve as a warning for other travellers.

"It's challenging to know the full extent of the issue right now because... there hasn't really been like a like national report or study done on it like in detail," says Kahsenniyo Kick with the Survivor Circle for Reproductive Justice.

Los Angeles is already infamous for poor air quality. But the fires scorching the area now are sending up plumes of black smoke that pose threats to human health beyond that of standard wildfires.

Two physician assistants have started work at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital on Vancouver Island, the first time the profession has been approved to work in a B.C. hospital setting.

Researchers are comparing the genetic features of the B.C. patient's avian flu strain with that of a Louisiana patient who died last week.

Florence Girard was so small when she died that she "looked like a child" in her casket, according to her sister, Sharon Bursey.

There are now 234 self-reported cases of a stomach flu linked to an outbreak at the University of Guelph's on-campus residence. Public health said there's been one lab-confirmed case of norovirus.

Advocates with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and a Dalhousie medical student have been working on initiatives to improve health care for patients with sight loss.