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It’s estimated that 25 to 50 per cent of wars are related to access to oil – and motor vehicles guzzle up about half of the consumption of the...
In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, children collect drinking water from a pond using filters provided to them by The Carter Center's guinea worm...
Physicians spend at least two additional hours daily looking for patient info that should be easily accessible in EMRs. Canada Health Infoway...
Alberta transportation minister Devin Dreeshen is defending himself against accusations that a move to ban photo radar enforcement on provincial...
It’s like a slow burn that threatens to explode info flames at any moment. The bad news about bird flu keeps trickling out gradually while we...
“Troubling resurgence of scurvy” is not a headline many people had on their 2024 bingo card. After all, hypovitaminosis C, as scurvy is formally...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at a Trump campaign event in Walker, Mich., on Sept. 27. Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press “I’m going to let him go...
Doctors and technicians operate at at Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, on July 26, 2023. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press “We’re short of doctors....
Here we go again. A B.C. judge blocked the medically assisted death of a 53-year-old Alberta woman after her common-law spouse alleged that MAID...
Back in 1998, British Columbia became the first province to sue tobacco companies in an attempt to recoup some of the costs of treating smoking-...
There are 2.1 million Quebeckers (and 6.5 million Canadians) who don’t have a family doctor. So what if, in the name of equity, we took away...
In health circles there is a popular theory circulating that goes something like this: Governments are letting the medicare system collapse to pave...
Should people with substance use disorder and severe mental illness be forced to undergo involuntary treatment? In the current provincial election...
A dying man was alone. No family; his only companion a cat. Home-care workers cared for the man’s every physical need – feeding, toileting,...
When Dr. Shelley Ross graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta in 1974, there were only 20 women in the class of 120. Back then,...
Elder Martha Peet during a moment of silence as the Canadian Medical Association held a ceremony at the Victoria Conference Centre in B.C., on...
Ottawa says a national school program should be accessible, in that 'children and youth can participate in school food programs without stigma or...
Gaza, a territory beset by war, has just reported its first case of polio in 25 years, and now there is a scramble to try and vaccinate 640,000...
Beer cans are stacked as props in front a display of milk at a press availability attended by Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a convenience store in...
The Ontario government is essentially turning its back on harm reduction measures and going all-in on addiction recovery. Closing supervised...
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives at a news conference in Montreal on July 12. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press In La...
A family nurse practitioner prepares a syringe with the mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New...
From the left, Minister of Emergency Preparedness Harjit Sajjan, Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland, MLA Shane Getson, Premier Danielle Smith, Minister...
In health care, we tend to spend a lot more time bemoaning failures than pondering successes. We too often lose sight of the fact that, while...
Thanks to the U.S. presidential election campaign, we seem intensely preoccupied by the age and cognitive state of two privileged old men. Joe...