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A Quebec company and organization are teaming up to gift a single mother of four an adapted vehicle for her son who has severe disabilities.

Faced with an uncertain future for her children in Nigeria, Dr. Omowumi Iyaoromi chose to leave her successful medical practice in Nigeria for a less uncertain future in Canada.

While the disease can be deadly in some acute cases, public health officials say it doesn’t spread as easily as some other infectious diseases, and there are specific reasons why it is more prevalent in some communities.

The charge against 77-year-old Gloria Lemay comes almost one year to the day after the alleged victim died on Jan. 6, 2024 — 10 days after a home birth over which Lemay is accused of presiding in contravention of a decades-old court order restraining her from acting as a midwife.

A few months after Kaitlyn Braun of Brantford, Ont., was sentenced to house arrest for faking pregnancies and fraudulently receiving the services of numerous doulas, she picked up the phone and did it again — twice.

A patient died while waiting eight hours for care at Health Sciences Centre's emergency department in Winnipeg Tuesday morning.

A measles outbreak in New Brunswick that resulted in a cluster of cases in Ontario and helped push Canada's case count to the highest it's been in a decade, is over, the Department of Health announced Tuesday.

Two new clinics that pay people for their plasma have opened in Fredericton and Saint John, following a location that was established in Moncton in 2017. 

Scientists are looking to understand how widespread avian flu is in Newfoundland and Labrador's ecosystem.

Positive tests for respiratory illnesses have been steadily climbing for weeks in British Columbia, especially for flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), according to data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new guidance for devices used to monitor blood oxygen levels to improve their accuracy and performance across a range of skin tones.

Curtis Sanderson went through the steps of getting sober, but it wasn't until he got advice from an elder that he realized what it would take to heal his body and spirit.

The first day of 2025 was meant to usher in an era without barriers for people with disabilities in Ontario. Instead, advocates say the province has missed its own deadline to make that world a reality. 

New research shows the rate of myopia among children and teens worldwide has tripled over the past three decades, with a particularly steep increase noted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is poised to open its new medical school in Brampton, Ont., in September. Here's what you need to know about the school's approach.

Wondering how you can get a nature prescription and what to do with it? Here's what you need to know.

Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. surgeon general said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption increases the risk of developing breast, colon, liver and other cancers.

The recent death of Canadian-born model and activist Dayle Haddon from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning has prompted new urgent calls to ensure carbon monoxide detectors are in good working order.

Patients travelling to Quebec City for medical appointments call Steve Guimond a "godsend." Nearly seven years into his position as a patient navigator, he says helping hundreds of patients has made him aware of the system's failures and highlighted the need for change