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One of Canada's top medical schools says it is changing its admissions process to reduce "systemic barriers" facing low-income and diverse candidates seeking to become doctors. 

The Indigenous Health office and the Indigenous Outdoor Gathering Space are steps by the university to advance the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call to action.

Positions will be rolled out between 2023 and 2028 and by the end of that time, the university will have a total of 134 undergraduate and 178 post graduate positions.

A Queen's University clinic looks to provide a family doctor for the 20,000 people in the area without one.

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The university will be saving 10 of of their 100 spots for the MD program for Black and Indigenous students from across Canada.

The chief of the remote northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat says health-care workers are “overwhelmed” after 11 people in the community of roughly 2,000 attempted to take their own lives on Saturday.

The system used to deliver medical services to First Nations introduces unnecessary barriers to care and often prevents doctors from doing their jobs, an Ontario physician bluntly told a parliamentary committee Thursday.

An elderly care strategy developed by a Toronto hospital is being shared with 18 other health care organizations.

The federal government is joining a drug-buying alliance with Canada’s provinces and territories, health officials said Tuesday.

There's now no way the federal government is going to meet Monday's Supreme Court deadline to enact legislation on doctor-assisted dying.

Canada's indigenous populations are experiencing sky-high HIV numbers - and the province of Saskatchewan alone has an infection rate comparable to countries in the developing world.

Carla experience taught her the value of elite athletes, but she hasn't lost sight of the role sports can play in the life of every Canadian.

According to the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, only 16-30 per cent of Canadians currently have access to palliative care.

Polls are open in Kamloops, B.C., from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Global News will have election results in the mayoral race right here after polls close.

Politicians are meeting with public health experts, doctors and family members who have lost loved ones at a two-day summit in Ottawa to hash out a solution to escalating - and deadly - rates of drug addiction.

They will cross examine a total of 45-thousand E. coli gene combinations over five years. At least one of those combinations will be the strain that is strong enough to combat the antibiotic resistant strain.

The Trudeau government will roll out its long-awaited marijuana legislation today.

Mental health advocates want holdout provinces to end their funding standoff with Ottawa and strike deals to ensure struggling patients have access to critical front-line services.

Canada had the second-highest medication costs for common conditions such as high blood pressure and cholesterol in 2015 compared to nine other affluent countries with universal health-care systems.