Health

VICTORIA — At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Centre For Disease Control says there are signs influenza is on a "steady decline" in the province, although case numbers remain high and positive test rates for respiratory syncytial virus continue to rise.

TORONTO — An Ontario court has acquitted three former cannabis leaders charged with offences linked to unlicensed growing at a Niagara area greenhouse. The ex-CannTrust Holdings Inc.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut health officials say there has been a surge of respiratory illnesses across the territory this year. Dr.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government announced Thursday it will seek to delay the expansion of Canada's assisted-dying regime to include people whose sole underlying conditions are mental disorders.

THE BACKGROUND: After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble , China faced a tough year.

TORONTO — The flu season may have peaked in Ontario, and that should relieve some pressure on children's hospitals in the near future, the province's top doctor said Thursday. Chief medical officer of health Dr.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it releases its contingency plans with coronavirus cases ticking upward this winter.

Virtual-care clinics may be adding pressure to the overwhelmed health-care system, the Ontario Medical Association said Thursday, even as some patients and doctors say they are vital alternatives to an otherwise necessary visit to an emergency room.

VICTORIA — Sensitive personal health records of British Columbia residents, from mental health to sexually transmitted disease histories, are "disturbingly" vulnerable to leaks, the provincial privacy watchdog says.