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When Bruce Masales was diagnosed with Stage 4 bladder cancer, he says the news came without warning. But as a longtime volunteer Halifax firefighter, Masales said he at least took comfort in the belief he would receive financial compensation.  However, Masales said he was told he doesn’t qualify under the provincial Workers’ Compensatio

Wietske Flor goes through every day wondering when the next seizure will hit.  Sometimes, the seizures happen multiple times a day. Sometimes, days will go by without one, leaving her on guard and waiting for the inevitable.  It means the 41-year-old Chilliwack mom can’t be left alone to care for her three kids, aged nine […]

The health unit for Oxford County, Elgin County and the City of St. Thomas is dealing with almost half of the measles cases in Ontario with 228 people infected, predominantly in unvaccinated kids.  The medical officer of health for Southwestern Public Health (SWPH) said Thursday that 28 new cases were reported this past week. He also debunked [&hel

Quirks and Quarks19:30Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage COVID may no longer be considered an official global emergency, but mounting scientific evidence suggests every COVID infection a person gets increases their risk of developing long-term health issues.  “There is no such thing as a COVID

Hundreds of nurses rallied outside several Ontario hospitals on Thursday to demand that CEOs improve staffing levels across the province. The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), which represents 68,000 registered nurses, health care professionals and student affiliates, said it wants hospital leaders to implement registered nurse-to-patient st

In an 11-page court document filed Thursday, the former CEO of Alberta Health Services alleges the province’s health minister and AHS have crafted a narrative about her that is “completely unfounded, entirely fictitious, malicious” and replete with “bad faith allegations.” Athana Mentzelopoulos was responding to statem

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Once a day, Tim Lagman takes a pill that reduces his risk of contracting HIV, a precaution he’s taken since […]

Measles is so infectious that when under-vaccinated individuals mingle, they’ll always be at risk. That’s why public health officials are stressing the importance of high vaccination rates amid backsliding and growing outbreaks. The disease is spreading across the country, with hundreds of cases reported this year and the majority in On

When Jennie Passche gets sick, she finds herself in a competition to get care. The 65-year-old in Esquimalt, on B.C.’s Vancouver Island, says she has to wake up early to call her community’s urgent and primary care centre, which opened in 2021 to provide same-day care and alleviate the family doctor shortage. But by the time […]

Canada has slipped to 18th place in the global World Happiness Report, down three spots from last year and placing it among the “largest losers” in happiness rankings over the last two decades, according to the annual report released Thursday. At its peak, in the 2015 report, Canada had placed fifth. Now, in 18th, Canada has dropped to

Marcie McIlveen never thought she’d work in a hospital. Due to her negative experiences in treatment for substance use disorder on about 14 occasions, “I hated health care, did not like it, wanted nothing to do with it,” McIlveen said. What she endured, however, has led to the work she does today. McIlveen is a peer […]

The provincial government has for years kept a hand in the contracting-out of private surgeries through Alberta Health Services, despite repeated comments by the premier and health minister that any potential issues with procurement are AHS’s own responsibility. Multiple documents obtained by CBC News show direct interventions by Alberta̵

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months — and their recovery — will give scientists a chance to improve preparations for eventual, and even longer, space flights, say experts. NASA aims to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s; flights which, there [

As concerns about measles grow, and case counts tick up, health-care workers are preparing for a surge and pleading with Albertans to ensure they’re fully vaccinated. According to Alberta Health there were 13 confirmed cases in the province as of midday Tuesday, including two in the Calgary zone, three in the Edmonton zone and eight in the no

Testing wastewater for diseases and viral activity gained prominence during the pandemic, but scientists are concerned that funding for such work could be threatened. Monitoring wastewater for pathogens — and even illicit and prescription drugs — was around for decades before the pandemic, but the method of estimating virus levels gained public att

The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another bird flu strain that has infected humans and caused egg prices to hit record highs. The spread of avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has ravaged flocks around […]

Five weeks after Cathy Croskery’s right breast was biopsied for suspected cancer, she still hadn’t received the results. She figured that was good news. It wasn’t. The 58-year-old mother and wife eventually discovered she has invasive carcinoma, but had to track down that diagnosis herself. Croskery doesn’t have a family doc

Protesters demanding the government provide more funding and treatment for people with long COVID gathered at a demonstration at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday. Long COVID is a chronic condition that can lead to debilitating symptoms, like brain fog and fatigue, months or even years after an acute COVID-19 infection. No one knows exactly how