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Alberta's health ministry has determined that more than 40 medical clinics in the province are advertising membership fees for services, nearly a year after one such plan landed a Calgary clinic in hot water.

Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Ontario have started receiving letters from one or more hospitals in the region, notifying them that their information was likely stolen following a cyberattack last year.

Family doctors use national guidelines to decide whether and when to send their patients for routine cancer screenings — but experts say Canadians' lives are at risk because those guidelines use old data, lack expert advice, and are updated too infrequently.

A Quebec advocacy group for people with disabilities called 94 Quebec clinics that offer mammograms. Nearly half told them they couldn't accommodate people using wheelchairs.

Canada is losing its family physicians to burnout and it’s creating a primary care crisis. Can a new program that prioritizes family doctor recruits help solve the shortage? The National's Nick Purdon gets special access to Queen's University and Lakeridge Health’s medical school program to see how it is preparing students for the realities they’ll face on the job.

An organization that represents Ontario doctors is expressing concern about what it says is a declining number of medical school students choosing family medicine.

Inuit leaders are concerned with the Trudeau government’s failure to spend any new money this year specifically on its goal of eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit regions by 2030. Advocates say budget 2024 was "a missed opportunity" and "a major disappointment" on that front.

Newly released documents highlight what provincial officials knew about the spread of COVID-19 in fall 2021.

Peel Public Health’s acting medical officer is warning the regional government that a huge backlog in school immunizations is spelling trouble for communicable diseases.

Quebec optometrists have confirmed 40 cases of eclipse-related eye damage since the solar event on April 8, and health officials say there could be more.