Christopher Harper

Ontario hospital patients awaiting spots in long-term care can be moved to nursing homes not of their choosing up to 150 kilometres away, with charges of $400 per day if...

Starting Thursday, Nova Scotians aged 65 and up can book an appointment to get a dose of the updated bivalent Moderna vaccine. This vaccine targets both the original virus and the Omicron variant...

Beginning Monday, the Moderna bivalent booster dose will be available to certain adult groups at Saskatchewan Health Authority vaccination clinics and participating pharmacies.The Moderna Spikevax bivalent booster offers protection against...

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 dropped slightly over the past seven days, according to the latest numbers from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. There are 314 people in...

This column is an opinion by Harmeet Nanner, a research analyst at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.In the...

Melanie Lindholm was a longtime blood donor in Alaska before her recent move to Prince George, B.C., where she found there was no local clinic for her to give blood.Lindholm is frustrated that...

Alberta chicken farmers are bracing for a second wave of avian flu infection this fall as the death toll among the province's flocks has surpassed one million. As migratory birds — natural carriers...

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says monkeypox activity in the province has peaked.Dr. Kieran Moore says the province peaked in total number of active cases the week of July...

In recent years, walking 10,000 steps a day has become a popular fitness goal, but until now, there wasn't much scientific research to back that number.A number of studies have...

This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.One night in March 2020, as wastewater researcher...