Patients living in Canadian rural and remote communities often move across multiple systems simply to access basic care. Bill ...

Canada can regain its measles elimination status, but only after we interrupt transmission for a full year. That requires ...

We cannot build a humane health-care system by forcing families to choose between unaffordable charges and unsafe or ...

Long emergency wait times are now widely recognized as a structural problem. But children should not deteriorate unnoticed in ...

If we are serious about improving health outcomes, particularly for populations navigating systemic barriers, creative ...

In medicine, responsibility traditionally has been clear. A clinician orders a test, interprets the result and ensures appropriate follow-up. That chain of accountability is central to how care is ...

The convenience of turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for health information is appealing. But it raises an important question: how reliable are these answers when the topic is our health?

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a preventable disability, yet it remains a persistent public health challenge for Canada. Prevention efforts – which focus on individual behaviour change, ...

Back in 2020, in response to the global call by the World Health Organization to eliminate cervical cancer, Canada set an ambitious goal to achieve 90 per cent HPV vaccination coverage among ...

Polished shoes; a collared shirt peeking out from under his pea coat; a professional degree listed on his chart. When the patient walked into my exam room, I was surprised when he told me he was ...

Youth are already talking about sexual health online every day. The question is whether trusted institutions are willing to meet them there – not with judgment, but with honesty, empathy and respect.

Fifteen years after the World Health Organization (WHO) released its Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Professionals, Health Canada released its Ethical framework for the ...