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Ontario offers about 18,000 spaces in publically funded group homes for adults with developmental disabilities, but more than 6,000 people are currently on waiting lists. The government also provides financial support for adults with autism, but advocates say it’s hardly…

Teens across the country often talk about how difficult it is to navigate the health-care system for services when they’re feeling distressed, said Dr. Joanna Henderson, a clinician scientist and director of the McCain Centre at the Centre for Addiction…

Dr. Jose Pereira, scientific officer of Pallium Canada and director of research at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, told Global News health care workers don’t get enough training in the essentials of palliative care, leaving patients to wait…

Today, Dr. Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, and Madeleine Meilleur, Ontario’s Attorney General issued the following statement: “Beginning today, medical assistance in dying is permitted in Ontario as a result of a decision by the Supreme…

Ontario is reaching a major milestone in the construction of a new four-storey patient care building at Milton District Hospital, which is part of Halton Healthcare. Today’s topping-off ceremony means that the new Milton facility has reached its highest point…

Ontario’s Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at improving patient care which calls for some major changes to the $50-billion health-care system. The 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) set up by the Liberals will be given an expanded role…

Quebec hospitals keep emergency room patients waiting longer than anywhere else in the Western world, according to a report by the province’s independent health watchdog. In a scathing final briefing before his position is abolished by Quebec’s Health Minister, Health…

Fifty-three student startups have been accepted into the 2016 cohort of U of T Engineering’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery accelerator program, the highest number since the program began in 2012. Here are three Hatchery startups — both starting out and on their…

Ontario has pledged to spend $222 million over three years to improve health care for First Nations, especially in the north where aboriginal leaders declared a state of emergency because of a growing number of suicides. The Liberal government also…