Effort to reduce toxic-drug deaths was ultimately derailed by political blowback

As a physician and professor specializing in end-of-life care, I teach the Platinum Rule: Do unto others as they would want done unto themselves

Health Minister announced Wednesday that the province is ending its three-year, first-in-Canada pilot program

In December, 2025, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health announced that Mary T Bassett would be stepping down as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. Fr...

People over 80 with memory of those in their 50s show less brain shrinkage and other differences. For a Canadian centenarian, the secret might lie in his passion for sharing a vocation turned hobby.

These microscopic mites, which burrow under your skin and cause ferocious itching, are incredibly hard to get rid of – and cases in the UK have soared. What is causing the outbreak, and is there anyth...

A resurgence of traditional midwifery is bringing deliveries back home

Life expectancy at birth in Canada increased for the second consecutive year in 2024, with women living longer on average than men, Statistics Canada said.

Le gaz hilarant, perçu comme inoffensif, peut devenir nocif et même mortel. Au moment où cette drogue devient à la mode chez les jeunes consommateurs, les gangs de rue se sont emparés de ce marché cla...

The three-year pilot project, which allowed people to be in possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, began on Jan. 31, 2023, and will expire at the end of this month.

Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports Israel’s war in Gaza has led to a 41% fall in births in the territory, and high numbers of maternal deaths, miscarriages, newborn mortality and premature births, two reports into the impact of the conflict on pregnant women, babies and maternity care reveal. Two reports by Physicians for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel document how the war has led to high figures for maternal and neonatal mortality and forced births in dangerous conditions and systematically dismantled health services – consequences of “a deliberate intention of preventing births among Palestinians, meeting the legal criteria of the Genocide Convention,” researchers said. Continue reading...

Human activities, coupled with compromised ecosystems, can boost the risk of new human and animal diseases developing and spreading. One Health aims to create new surveillance and disease control meth...

Former residents of Cassiar say they weren’t warned about the risks. Now, they struggle to find support.

A federal drug exemption that allows adults to possess small amounts of some drugs is set to end Jan. 31, and Premier David Eby has the province won’t return to its “old policy” of decriminalized public drug use.

Radon kills thousands in Canada, but BC lags in helping residents minimize risk.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Christopher Lockyear, the Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), about Israel ordering 37 international nongovernmental organisations ...

Conservative Party members are pressing their leader to adopt a number of controversial policy positions at their upcoming convention including private health care, scrapping Diversity Equity and Incl...

Saskatchewan's Compassionate Intervention Act would allow police or family to place people in treatment against their will. It has yet to be passed by the legislature.

Dr. Paul Parks, the president-elect of the section of emergency medicine of the Alberta Medical Association, said he is calling for drastic action from the provincial government at the urging of physi...

Denmark and the Netherlands are considered to some of the top countries for primary care. Doctors say Canada has a lot to learn from these nations.