Tag Archives: Health

Santa is making sure everyone is in the holiday spirit this Christmas, especially those away from home.On Thursday, he visited the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (JPCH) as part of the JPCH Foundatio...

A British Columbia community's "out-of-the-box" plan to ease its family doctor shortage by hiring physicians as city employees is sparking interest from across Canada, says Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayash...

VANCOUVER - A fake nurse who "used a weapon each time she inserted a needle" in patients has been sentenced to another four years in prison on top of the remaining three years she is already serving i...

TORONTO - Toronto's public health agency says people who travelled through Pearson Airport earlier this month may have been exposed to measles. Toronto Public Health says a person with a case of measl...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has repealed a law it passed last year to restrict drug use in some public areas because successful court challenges prevented it from being brought into for...

Fundraising for two Saskatchewan Ronald McDonald Houses has reached the halfway mark, the organization confirmed on December 19 that they are 50 per cent of the way to reaching their goal. The Miles t...

VANCOUVER - The family of a 52-year-old man who received medical assistance in dying while on a day pass from a Vancouver psychiatric hospital has launched a constitutional challenge to the procedure'...

VANCOUVER - When Vancouver police deputy chief Fiona Wilson addressed reporters Tuesday about two Central Saanich police officers facing sexual assault charges, she called the allegations "deeply corr...

A disease that lives off the flesh of living mammals has been confirmed in Chiapas, Mexico. New World screwworm (NWS) is a parasitic larval disease of warm-blooded animals where the female fly will la...

Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) launched a new 24-hour helpline on Monday to provide anyone who is struggling mentally and needs a safe place to talk."If we save one life or help one child mov...