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Some Canadians are waiting longer for medical treatments that federal and provincial governments agreed to provide more quickly, according to a new report. The Wait Times Alliance, which includes doctors from specialties such as emergency medicine, radiology and cardiology, released its annual report card on wait times Tuesday. In a…

A central Newfoundland family whose wife and mother died after she was released from hospital say an external review backs up their belief that a physician missed critical details about her condition. Musgrave Harbour resident June Abbott, 69, went to the emergency room in Gander in May 2010 with a…

The health of hospitalized Canadians and their visitors is being seriously put at risk by hospitals that have cut corners in cleaning budgets to save money, a Marketplace investigation has revealed. The program took hidden cameras inside 11 hospitals in Ontario and British Columbia. What they found in many of…

TORONTO – Health Canada is warning hospitals and health-care providers across the country to immediately stop using a painkiller made by Sandoz Canada after a box of the injectable morphine was found to contain another powerful drug that had been mislabelled. Sandoz informed Health Canada on Wednesday that an unidentified…

The family of a man who died of a heart attack while waiting for an ambulance during Toronto’s 2009 civic strike is suing the city for more than $10 million. James Hearst died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, while waiting more than 35 minutes for paramedics to arrive…

Ontario residents are getting a first look at the contracts of hospital CEOs, revealing a wide range of benefits and retirement packages that include offers of luxury car leases, golf club memberships and even free plastic surgery. Hospital websites posted the contracts for some of the top earners in charge…

TORONTO – The doctor shortage of a few years ago is being resolved and Canada could be heading towards a glut of physicians, data in a new report on the supply of doctors suggest. The number of practising doctors in Canada is at an all-time high, with nearly 70,000 active…

Surgery wait times for elective medical treatments in Canada are on the rise according to a new report released Monday by the Fraser Institute. This year’s version of the right wing think-tank’s annual report, titled Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, notes the median surgical wait…

OTTAWA – A new report says Canadians believe the country’s health-care system needs to be fixed. The Canadian Medical Association report says people want to see the system transformed to deliver “timely, compassionate and efficient care.” The paper is based on the CMA’s National Dialogue on Health Care Transformation with…