Tag Archives: Health

MILAN - The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics have yet to officially open, but Canada is already dealing with setbacks. Canada's opening women's hockey game against Finland was postponed Thursday due to i...

CALGARY - Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau will undergo season-ending hip surgery, the club announced Thursday. The procedure is scheduled for March, following consultations with team doctors...

CAIRO (AP) - Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in th...

TORONTO - A new survey suggests Canadians feel the health-care system has deteriorated over the last decade as they increasingly struggle to access family doctors and encounter hurdles to seeing speci...

An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...

TORONTO - The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems, giving both patients and providers access t...

Friends of an avid adventure seeker critically injured after a 40-metre fall from a Colorado ice wall are rallying to bring him back to Canada to continue his long recovery. Vratislav (Vrato) Durech a...

OTTAWA - A Canadian man who says he has been tortured in Syria is asking the Federal Court to order Ottawa to decide whether to help bring him home. The man, known publicly only as SS, is one of sever...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former campus gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on sex abuse charges. James Heaps was se...

TORONTO - Calls to Toronto Seniors Helpline are on the rise as older adults struggle with issues ranging from no heat in their homes to loneliness amid brutal cold and impassable snow-covered sidewalk...