Health

Nurses regularly face physical and emotional abuse on the job. An employment protection called presumptive care would give them the support they so desperately need.

A growing number of Canadians pay out of pocket for MRIs, hip replacements, even family doctor visits. How a two-tiered system crept into Canada.

Canadians are working while ill to avoid losing income. Instituting country-wide sick-leave policies is a healthier option.

Immunologist Dawn Bowdish tells us why measles cases are soaring, who’s at risk and how we can still stamp it out

B.C. rolled out the Longitudinal Family Physician payment model and gained 700 new family doctors

Decades ago, Toronto researcher Daniel Drucker co-discovered a hormone that paved the way for today’s most-talked-about drug. Does he get the hype? Yes and no.

In Belleville, where I’m the chief paramedic, people were dropping like flies. Soon, the city declared a state of emergency.

In December, Ontario patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before being admitted to the hospital

This isn’t your average strep throat infection—in some cases, it can cause flesh-eating disease or even meningitis

With wait times getting longer by the year, the choice was easy