Ottawa Public Health is recommending the federal government consider a New Zealand-style generational smoking ban, which sought to prevent anyone born after 2008 from ever buying tobacco products in their lifetime.
The survey, conducted by ThinkHQ, suggests 91 per cent of the 1,375 doctors who responded are concerned about the continued financial viability of their practices and 52 per cent are very concerned.
Ken Harrower, who was flying out of Calgary bound for Toronto, said he was approached by the flight's pilot prior to boarding and told he could not board the flight with his power chair because of the batteries it uses.
Health Minister Mark Holland says some of his provincial counterparts have concerns about whether Canada is ready to extend medical assistance in dying to people with severe mental illnesses.
The Humanity Project, a Moncton non-profit that serves meals to people in need, has been working for several years to turn a187-acre farm into a “therapeutic community,” with a focus on people who are not being served by existing shelters and services in the city.
A woman who is acting as power of attorney for her previously healthy brother following a massive stroke says there should be more resources available to help Canadians prepare to take over for a loved one when “just in case” becomes a reality.
The first routine vaccine to protect children from malaria, one of Africa's deadliest diseases, launches in Cameroon.
For years, peanuts and tree nuts have been considered off-limits in school snacks and lunches as a key precaution to protect those with life-threatening allergies. However, as one Canadian school lifts that restriction, is the tide beginning to turn away from specific food bans?
A handful of new virtual cancer screening programs in British Columbia are connecting people who don't have a family doctor with potentially life-saving treatment they may otherwise be missing out on.
New data shows that the number of people with dementia is rapidly growing in Ontario and doctors are urging the province to invest in home care to meet their needs.
Early trials showed Paxlovid could be a 'game changer' to keep people out of hospital. Yet the COVID-19 landscape has changed since then, with most people now protected against serious illness thanks to vaccination or past infections. So who should get the Pfizer antiviral going forward?
When Dawson City, Yukon, resident Mike Najman's filling fell out and his tooth broke, he was in a lot of pain. And with no resident dentist in town, he decided he had to take matters into his own hands.
B.C. health authorities are warning that group A strep was identified in four children who have died since mid-December, and the province is seeing unusually high levels of the disease this winter.
Another 17 Albertans have died from COVID, according to the latest weekly data released by the province. That brings the death toll for the current season to 420.
Kashmir Hill feels she spends too much time on her phone. That's why for a month in December, she traded her state-of-the-art iPhone 15 for an old-school flip phone.
Despite being less than one per cent of the total population, homeless Edmontonians accounted for 58 per cent of frostbite amputation visits
Businesses in the downtown area of New Brunswick’s largest city say they’re grappling with the impacts of a deepening addiction and homelessness crisis.
A health-care union is repeating fears that a longstanding staffing shortage of medical technologists could lead to the collapse of a lab and put patients at the hospital in Thompson, Man., where 83 per cent of the specialized positions remain vacant.
Canada is seeing a record number of cases of invasive Group A strep, a bacterial infection that kills roughly one in 10 people who contract it, according to data obtained by CBC News.
A Brantford woman who pleaded guilty last month to faking pregnancies and fraudulently seeking the services of dozens of doulas across Ontario faces a sentencing hearing today, when victims will also share how her actions have affected their lives.
