Health in the News

The federal government announced a $2.4 million investment through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to establish a Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research centre in Yukon. Based in Whitehorse and led by Dr. Norma Ann Shorty…

Canada’s federal health minister raised concerns about Alberta’s dual-practice health-care model, which is scheduled to begin in Sept. under Bill 11. The law allows some physicians to work in both private and public care settings, a change…

Lilly Canada issued a public safety warning that retatrutide, an investigational molecule in Phase 3 clinical trials for obesity, type 2 diabetes and related indications, hasn't been approved by Health Canada or any other regulator and cannot be…

Teva Canada is recalling two lots of Teva-Pregabalin 150 mg capsules in Canada after routine testing found possible contamination with sertraline. Health Canada said patients with a hypersensitivity or allergy to sertraline could experience side…

Ontario’s Ministry of Health is disputing CUPE hospital union claims that the province’s hospital system is underfunded by $5 billion compared with the rest of Canada. CUPE says Sudbury hospitals need an additional $105 million and 1,079 more…

The Ontario government announced $20.8 million in operational funding for Niagara Health sites across the Niagara region and Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. Catharines. According to the article, the funding will help…

New Brunswick’s Official Languages Commissioner is investigating a complaint filed in early July after Virtual Care NB users were unable to access French-language services for multiple days. Francophone patients saw no available appointment dates…

Manitoba opened its first supervised consumption site at 366 Henry Ave. in downtown Winnipeg, operating five days a week after delays and location changes. The province says the site will allow people to consume drugs under trained staff…

Quebec’s health ministry is keeping its recommendation that colorectal cancer screening for average-risk, asymptomatic individuals at age 50 rather than 45, despite calls from the Canadian Cancer Society and other experts to lower the age. The…

Alberta has begun allowing patients to privately book diagnostic imaging tests without a doctor's referral and pay up front, with provincial reimbursement available only if the test leads to a previously undiagnosed cancer finding. The policy is…

A report from the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions says hospitals in Windsor and Chatham-Kent are short $128 million and 1,266 staff, with bed occupancy at 90.5%, above the safe level of 80%. The report also says local health-care institutions…

Architecture49 will provide architectural and engineering services for a medical countermeasures laboratory facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The lab will be co-located with the National Microbiology Laboratory and is intended to expand Canada's…

Currently, residents have to travel to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown or Moncton to receive scans, but Health P.E.I. says Islanders will soon be able to have MRIs performed at a private clinic in Summerside with the cost covered by…

The federal government announced $700,000 over 5 years in renewed support for crisis hotline services in Newfoundland and Labrador for people affected by gender-based violence. The funding is intended to maintain timely, effective and trauma-…

Ontario lowered the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 as of July 1, and to 40 for people at increased risk. According to the Ottawa Hospital, the change will allow more than one million people in Ontario to access screening sooner. Dr…

New federal modelling from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows an estimated 2,517 new HIV infections in 2024, up 22.8% from 2,050 in 2022. New cases are increasingly appearing in smaller communities with inadequate healthcare access, raising…