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Byline: ANDREA WOO, XIAO XU VANCOUVER -- British Columbia will require all of its hospitals to provide a designated space for patients with substance-use disorders to consume illicit drugs, prompted [...]

Cold, wet weather combined with a lack of clean water, toilets and food have fueled a spike in respiratory, stomach and other ailments, and the sick are left struggling to [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger, Susannah George, Hajar Harb and Hazem Balousha JERUSALEM - International pressure on Israel to halt its war in Gaza intensified Sunday as Israeli tanks and troops pushed [...]

Byline: Katie Shepherd A premature baby was given four times the safe daily dose of a steroid for 13 days. A patient went in for surgery on one leg and [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS NANAIMO, B.C. -- A new intensive care unit in Nanaimo, B.C., will start taking patients later this month, replacing an aging unit once called one of [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff TORONTO -- The Ontario government has passed a landmark health bill to shift more surgeries out of hospitals and into new or expanded private clinics, despite [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Hospitals are filling with hundreds of casualties and the death toll is climbing rapidly across Sudan as its army clashes with a powerful militia [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Mar. 29People who use a satellite radiology center on Freeport Road in Harrison will instead receive services at Allegheny Valley Hospital beginning this summer. A $12 million [...]

Byline: NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE; Staff GAZA CITY -- Less than 90 kilometres from the Israeli medical centres whose worldclass cancer care draw patients from around the world, Eyyad Abu Jalalah lies [...]

Byline: WILLOW FIDDLER; Staff All autopsies related to public death investigations in Thunder Bay will soon be conducted in Toronto after the local hospital that performs them phases out its [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in Britain on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike [...]

Byline: ROBERT BELL Professor emeritus in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, former deputy minister of health for Ontario and former chief executive of the University Health [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- The Alberta government says its first shipment of children's pain reliever it ordered has arrived and will be distributed to hospitals immediately. The province [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Preventing the poaching of staff is the top concern hospitals have about a new system of private clinics that will be used to cut [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO; Staff VANCOUVER -- Geneva Reynen had never been known to cry, but in a Vancouver hospital room last week she sobbed until she couldn't breathe. Four months [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA Almost every surgery postponed by multiple waves of COVID-19 in British Columbia has been completed, according to a report whose results Health Minister Adrian Dix [...]

Byline: MICHAEL TUTTON; THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT JOHN -- The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS; Staff With primary care shortages, pandemic backlogs and widespread respiratory illnesses putting intense pressure on hospitals across Canada, physicians and health leaders say they are adapting their [...]

Byline: TYLER GRIFFIN; THE CANADIAN PRESS Virtual-care clinics may be adding pressure to the overwhelmed health care system, the Ontario Medical Association said Thursday, even as some patients and doctors [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO; Staff VANCOUVER -- BC Children's Hospital is preparing to double-bunk patients in its single-occupancy hospital rooms to accommodate a high volume of sick children during an early [...]

Heather Patterson is a Calgary-based emergency physician, photographer and author of Shadows and Light: A Physician's Lens on COVID. Katharine Smart is a pediatrician in Whitehorse and past president of [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario has asked thousands of family health care workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children's hospitals, a government memo [...]

Byline: CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Health care advocates say they are preparing a possible constitutional challenge to an Ontario law that allows some discharged elderly hospital patients [...]

Ontario, like other provinces, is seeing a disturbing rise in cases of viral chest infections in young children. Whether it's the flu or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), many of the [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT; Staff Manitoba has reopened its only pediatric intensive-care unit to patients from Nunavut, reversing a policy that had doctors in the territory's central region scrambling to find [...]

Byline: DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY; Staff After six years of nursing, Birgit Umaigba knew what an ER in crisis mode looked like. The 35-year-old Nigerian-born nurse had gained a large socialmedia following [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT, KELLY GRANT Ontario's independent COVID-19 Science Advisory Table highlights the work of primary-care practitioners during the pandemic in its final report, and warns of challenges ahead as [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, DUSTIN COOK, CARLY WEEKS Ontario is planning to deal with a crisis plaguing hospitals by boosting the number of surgeries done at existing private-sector clinics, attracting 6,000 [...]

Byline: Lisa Rein WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough on Monday will recommend closing hospitals and outpatient clinics from Massachusetts to South Dakota in the biggest effort to reconfigure [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd On the first day of 2022, outside Xi'an Gaoxin Hospital, in the middle of China's worst coronavirus outbreak since Wuhan, a woman eight months pregnant miscarried after [...]

Dec. 12There are just too many covid patients and not enough care to go around. Hospitals across the state are reporting numbers that are pushing them to the edge. UPMC [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Health officials in southwestern Ontario are warning the public about strained acute care and hospital capacity issues. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit - along with [...]

Byline: HOLLY MCKENZIE-SUTTER, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead Modelling suggests Ontario intensive care units could be treating around 200 COVID-19 patients by January, but the head of the agency [...]

Byline: Anand Iyer When the coronavirus vaccines became widely available, I thought hospitals like mine might turn a corner. For a brief moment, things nearly did. Here in Alabama, the [...]

Byline: ARTHUR SCHAFER Lead Founding director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba The government of Ontario has a secret triage plan for the [...]