Health

The biggest hospital in the province is about to be the latest forced to divert patients due to a shortage of OBGYNs.

Airfare and hotel costs in Vancouver are skyrocketing as FIFA nears, and this is having an impact on those who need to travel for health reasons.

The national PharmaCare program will start in B.C. Sunday, giving residents free access to a variety of diabetes medications and menopausal hormone therapy.

Black women are three to four times more likely to die during or as a result of childbirth in the United States and the U.K., and although Canadians could assume similar statistics for Black women in our...

Conservative MLA Brennan Day has introduced a private member's bill that aims to shed light on wait times in B.C.’s long-term care system.

Health Minister Marjorie Michel says Canada needs to take action on men's health, as she launched the first step toward a national strategy today. The federal government is seeking feedback from people...

At 33 years old, Katie Hulan never expected that a cough would turn into a cancer diagnosis. She did not smoke, had no risk factors or family history of cancer, and maintained a healthy lifestyle. "I...

The union representing B.C.’s ambulance paramedics and emergency dispatchers will not strike Thursday, but says it's poised to do so after members overwhelmingly voted in favour of job action this month.

As of 8 a.m. Thursday, the maternity unit at White Rock's Peace Arch Hospital will be closed, again, for four days because of what the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) describes as "unexpected departures." This...