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The election April 28 presents an opportunity to have a say on certain aspects of health care the federal government controls, and to hold lawmakers — and would-be lawmakers — to account, health policy experts say.

The IWK Health Centre says it is working toward a new menu that will emphasize locally sourced foods, and include more gluten-free and diverse options.

Dr. Sunil Sookram is now the province's temporary top doctor after Dr. Mark Joffe left of his own accord earlier this week.

Measles spread to 109 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province's total cases to 925 since an outbreak began in October.

Members of the World Health Organization reached a landmark agreement on Wednesday on how to learn from COVID-19, which killed millions of people in 2020-22, and prepare the world for future pandemics.

Quebec's Health Ministry says it's on the verge of declaring its measles outbreak over, just as cases reach new heights in other parts of the country.

With just under two weeks to go until election day, some Canadians with disabilities say they feel forgotten by the federal party leaders.

A Nova Scotia woman recovering from a lung transplant says she had to take tens of thousands of dollars from her retirement fund in order to undergo a life-saving transplant because provincial medical allowances fall far short of her expenses.

A new CDC report suggests autism diagnosis rates continue to rise in the U.S., sparking inflammatory rhetoric from government officials, while experts largely attribute the trend to improved screening and better understanding of the condition. 

An open letter penned by a group of Manitoba researchers has garnered support from hundreds of other scientists and academics across the country, sounding the alarm about the effects of research cuts in the U.S. on Canadian research and urging federal political leaders to take action.

Dr. Mark Joffe is no longer Alberta's chief medical officer of health, leaving the province without a top doctor as it battles growing measles outbreaks.

Babies and children up to age four could be breathing in and absorbing plasticizer chemicals from their mattresses while they sleep, a Canadian study suggests.

Bill 53, the Compassionate Intervention Act, lays out the criteria, guidelines and process for a family member or guardian, health-care professional or police officer to get someone into treatment. The legislation was introduced Tuesday.

The chief of Neskantaga First Nation is urging the federal government to immediately help set up a mobile health centre in the remote northwestern Ontario community due to flooding that has closed its nursing station. The First Nation went into a state of emergency on Sunday. Here's more of what we know so far.

Universal Ostrich's entire flock of about 400 birds was ordered culled in February by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after H5N1 avian flu was detected in December — but the farm managed to get its birds a stay of execution until the court could rule on the merits of the cull order.

Doctors and residents in northern and rural Manitoba say health care in their communities must be a federal election priority this year, as emergency rooms continue to close and patients travel farther and longer for care.

Dyllan Taylor Humphrey spent most of a recent Saturday walking the streets of Moncton in search of her homeless younger brother.

Imposters hacked into B.C. health-care workers’ CRA accounts after a massive breach of employees’ private identification from the B.C. government’s Interior Health authority, which runs hospitals and medical facilities in the southeastern part of the province, The Fifth Estate has learned.

While the crisis is intensely personal for those who have lost people they care about — children, parents, partners, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends, co-workers — it's also become a point of political tension, as leaders try to figure out the best way to address toxic drug deaths in B.C. and beyond. 

Canada’s food inspection agency is ordering the Australian staple be removed from the shelves of a Toronto café chain. The owner says that could cost him thousands in product, and many of his Australian expat customers are rallying around him.