March 09, 2010

CALGARY - Alberta health officials say they've made changes after an independent review into a string of mistakes at a Calgary children's hospital last year, including two drug overdoses and a child...

March 09, 2010

VICTORIA, B.C. - B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he is considering selling health-care services to offshore patients in the same way the province markets higher education to foreign students.

March 09, 2010

TORONTO - A landmark study looking at how to limit the spread of influenza has shown what experts have long believed but hadn't until now proved: Giving flu shots to kids helps protect everyone in a...

March 09, 2010

TORONTO - There has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of Canadians becoming infected or colonized by the superbug MRSA since 1995, both in hospitals and within the community, a study has...

March 09, 2010

MONTREAL - The family of a woman who died after a four-day wait in the corrdor of a Montreal emergency ward wants a public inquiry into the state of Quebec's health-care system.

March 09, 2010

A national analysis of health data suggests tuberculosis is 185 times more common among Canada's Inuit than it is among the mainstream population - and getting worse.

March 09, 2010

REGINA - Saskatchewan chiropractors say they fear the government is on the verge of delisting their services in the upcoming provincial budget.

March 09, 2010

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland's largest health authority says an internal review into testing errors for cyclosporine at its biochemistry lab in St. John's shows they were not reported to executives...

March 09, 2010

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings - those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents can sling around their chests to carry their baby.