An Edmonton couple is sharing the details of their baby's death with CBC News in the hopes revelations about his traumatic delivery can help prevent similar tragedies. Huxley Bowes' death, and the investigations that followed, triggered systemic changes at the Edmonton hospital where he was born.
Dr. Michael Antil left the U.S. in 2023 with his family, driven out by an increasingly conservative political climate and COVID-era hostility toward doctors. Now a family physician to over 2,000 patients in Toronto, he’s repeatedly been denied permanent residency, lost in a maze of paperwork and red tape.
Laura Bennion and Ian Auld are the lead physicians for Canada's women's and men's hockey teams.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rebuked the founder of Moose Jaw’s controversial Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center, alleging that a recent clinical trial of his supplements put the safety and welfare of research subjects at risk.
Chronic Lyme disease isn't recognized by conventional medicine. It's a controversial term used by some alternative practitioners to describe pain, fatigue and neurological symptoms they attribute to a persistent Lyme infection. Some Lyme experts say it’s fuelling a dubious industry and say celebrity cases are part of the problem.
The policy that allows faith-based health-care providers to ban medical assistance in dying in their facilities is being tested now in B.C. Supreme Court. But transfers of MAID patients because the facility won't allow the practice are more common outside B.C., according to Health Canada data.
While a record number of surgeries is being performed in the province, the number of people on Alberta's waitlist is longer than it was two years ago. And the latest provincial data shows less than two-thirds of patients had their surgeries completed within the recommended time period.
B.C. Transplant said the latest data shows 2025 saw the highest number of organ transplants done in the province.
When radiologists used artificial intelligence to help read mammograms, the rate of detection of breast cancers increased, resulting in fewer aggressive and advanced cases, a large trial in Sweden has found.
As Saint John police investigate alleged sex offences at a long-term care home, the head of a national seniors' advocacy organization says protecting nursing home residents from sexual abuse is an important but challenging issue.
A "grossly incompetent or grossly negligent" Manitoba nurse has been stripped of her licence and fined $10,000 after admitting to wrongly administering fentanyl and another drug that caused a patient's heart to stop last fall, a licensing body says.
India has confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Here are answers on what the virus is and what happened in previous outbreaks in Asian countries.
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