The panel's report, called "The Time to Act is Now ," says disease surveillance ... It had been requested by Health Canada last August. The report also recommended that evolving health information ...

A Health Canada exemption that allows pharmacists wider authority to ... The exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances ...

A Surrey B.C. woman wants to know why she needed to take advantage of a loophole in the Canada Health Act to get badly-needed surgery. Carolyn Latzen was suffering from what she said was an ...

Six months after Ontario began a push to close what it believes is a federal loophole, nurse practitioners continue to charge in Ontario. One proposed solution was voted down.

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount MP Anna Gainey has appealed to federal Health Minister Mark Holland to intervene under the Canada Health Act in a controversial new language directive in Quebec.

A man's latest attempt to challenge B.C.'s rules on unpasteurized milk — also known as "raw milk" — was dismissed in the province's Supreme Court.

An expert panel of doctors and researchers say Canada needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and take action before the next health emergency strikes.

Health Canada has published a report from a group of experts tasked with reviewing the federal government's approach to ...

As previously reported, on February 29, 2024, the Minister of Health introduced Bill C-64, An Act respecting pharmacare (Pharmacare Act), ...

and that’s part of the Canada Health Act,” she said. “At the time that the Canada Health Act was created, nurse practitioners’ scope of practice was very minimal. Now our scope of practice ...

The federal government should leave employer-paid virtual care offered through workplace benefit plans alone when it issues a long-anticipated interpretation of the Canada Health Act to address ...