COVID-19

Some smokers who've failed to quit take the battery-operated option

Most died from blood clots, show Health Canada documents obtained by CBC News

Public health agency doesn’t call for travel restrictions but urges health workers to be vigilant

Throughout Europe, the nursing profession is rapidly losing its appeal. An aging workforce and dwindling student enrollment in nursing schools are precipitating a looming nursing crisis.

QUEBEC CITY | Biopharmaceutical company Medicago, which develops vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and virus-like particles (VLPs), says it has successfully produced a new VLP vaccine candidate for the H7N9 virus. The virus is responsible for the current influenza outbreak in China.

An Alberta nurse’s aide says she has been sent home without pay because she refused to get a flu shot over personal health worries, underscoring a growing clash between employee rights and the drive to protect vulnerable patients and senior citizens from the virus.