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New cancer cases and deaths continue to rise steadily as Canada’s population grows and ages, according to a new report. The Canadian Cancer Society and Public Health Agency of Canada released their annual report on cancer statistics on Wednesday. Current…

Alberta’s NDP government says the province’s physicians have ratified a new deal that both sides say will make the system more efficient over time. Both sides say the amendments include a plan to put doctors in communities that need them…

After two days of negotiations, provincial and territorial health ministers left Toronto at an impasse over health care funding. Provincial and territorial ministers were hoping to convince Ottawa that a planned cut to the rate of increase for the health…

For Sarah Michaelis, waiting two years for a new breast was almost as agonizing as cancer itself. The Toronto television producer was 36, and had only recently weaned her youngest daughter, when doctors told her in June of 2011 that…

Long before Donald Trump called out the Canadian health care system as “slow” and “catastrophic in certain ways”, this country’s health minister offered a more modest criticism: Canada could be doing much better. In fact, during the same speech, Philpott…

Ontario is providing a grant to help the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) plan for upgrades and improvements, ensuring that children and their families continue to have access to high quality health care. This grant will support the Toronto-based paediatric…

The long and growing list of prescription drugs consumed by Canada’s elderly is actually making them more likely to end up in hospital, not less so, suggests a striking new study. Rather than keeping senior citizens healthier, use of multiple…

As the NHS lurches from crisis to crisis, the UK’s approach to health needs radical rethinking to create a healthy and health-creating society. Just as the founding of the NHS in 1948 was a great national movement creating a health…

Health Minister Jane Philpott is hinting that provinces won’t get a promised $3-billion infusion of health care funding in the coming federal budget unless they commit to spend it on home care. The federal minister said Tuesday she wants that…

A new national health accord hinges on a federal agreement to first double the increase to Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories before they buy in to any federal spending strings, Quebec’s health minister declared Thursday. “We will talk…