Tag Archives: Health

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - An American doctor in Congo is among the newly confirmed cases in an outbreak of a rare variant of the Ebola virus with no approved vaccines or therapeutics, Congolese officials...

For many Canadians who have an intellectual disability or know someone who does, Frank Hayden is a treasure. "His advocacy changed the lives for thousands of intellectually disabled people across the ...

For many Canadians who have an intellectual disability or know someone who does, Frank Hayden is a treasure. "His advocacy changed the lives for thousands of intellectually disabled people across the ...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put international heal...

Laboratory testing has confirmed the presumptive positive case of the Andes strain of hantavirus reported in British Columbia The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed the results Sunday in a resid...

OTTAWA - Canadian aid groups are deliberating how to respond to American policies that block U.S. aid for virtually any group in developing countries that provides abortion, science-based sexual healt...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and neighboring Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday a...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Medical Association says another patient has died while waiting for care at a hospital, as the province's health agency investigates the case. AMA President Dr. Brian Wirzba say...

British Columbia's provincial health officer says one of the four Canadians isolating in the province who had been on a cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak has received a "presumptive po...

TORONTO - Ontario's ministry of health said it is now testing asymptomatic people with connections to a hantavirus-stricken cruise, a shift from government remarks made earlier this week, as health of...