health

Nova Scotia

Number of surgeries being completed on the rise, Nova Scotia Health official says

New figures posted on the provincial government’s health data accountability website suggests surgeons are completing roughly the same number of surgeries…

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Canada

Travel-nurse company turned my life upside down, health worker says

The company at the heart of the travel-nurse controversy is now the subject of a complaint over unpaid wages under…

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Nova Scotia

Wildfires can take a heavy toll on mental health. Here’s what researchers say should be done to help evacuees

Helen Malone-Babineau has escaped not one, but two wildfires in the past eight years. Now, she’s starting over again in…

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Politics

Quebec Liberal MPs take aim at provincial directive on language in health care

At least three Quebec Liberal MPs have raised concerns with federal ministers about a new provincial directive they say limits access to health…

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Health

Canada to fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands

More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. Health closes blood collection clinic at Halifax Infirmary

The expansion of the province’s largest hospital complex has forced the permanent closure of a blood collection site in downtown…

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Health

Lifelines: People along Lake Huron’s north shore concerned about services, long drives for health care

This is the third story in CBC Sudbury’s Lifelines series exploring access to health care in the communities of Lake Huron’s…

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Health

After losing their first child, this couple struggled to find public mental health support

When Chris and Stephanie Goulding lost their first born baby 10 hours after birth, the couple was left to find…

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Health

COVID-19 public health emergency in B.C. declared over

British Columbia’s top doctor says she is ending the public health emergency declared in March 2020 in response to the…

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Health

Health Canada warns of dosing instruction error in naloxone take-home kits

Health Canada warns that  naloxone take-home kits (NTH kits) by Canadian Hospital Specialties Ltd. may contain incorrect naloxone dosing information…

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