Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé is stepping down. Dubé cited difficult negotiations with the unions representing ...

Canadian officials said that avian flu is likely behind the unprecedented die-off of roughly 500 birds in and near the Red River in southern Manitoba.

A new large cohort study in Israel suggests that adults who survive a COVID hospitalization face significantly higher ...

A Canadian Conservative lawmaker has defected from his party and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals ...

When the U.S. Senate votes on rival, partisan health bills on Thursday, they’ll have two chances to address expiring ...

A group promoting the idea of Saskatchewan separating from Canada says its public information sessions are drawing crowds.

COVID-19 emergency room visits are surging nationwide according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and although New Jersey's rate of COVID hospitalizations remain relatively low, ...

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The director of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine division told agency staff in a memo that an internal review found that at least 10 children died “after and because of receiving” the Covid ...

The agency’s top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to implement stricter vaccine approval guidelines after a memo claimed at least 10 children died “after and because of” receiving a COVID-19 shot. The ...

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