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Health Canada has approved the vaccine, mRESVIA, for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease in older adults, the company said.

Some Ontario doctors have started offering a free shot that can protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus while Quebec will begin its immunization program next month.

Albertans can now book appointments for COVID-19 and flu vaccines for bookings starting on Oct. 15 and RSV immunizations starting on Oct. 21.

This fall and winter, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut will offer nirsevimab — approved by Health Canada in the spring of 2023 —  to all babies going through their first RSV season.

 The World Health Organization on Tuesday recommended maternal vaccination and the use of an antibody therapy to prevent respiratory synctial virus (RSV) in infants.

An Alberta mother is sharing her story about RSV after her youngest child ended up in the hospital on oxygen after contracting the virus when she was just seven weeks old.

Alberta's respiratory virus tracker shows lab-confirmed COVID cases have nearly doubled since September. AHS says some hospitals are experiencing high occupancy levels.

As Taylor Swift's show kicks off in Toronto, health experts warn that large crowds and public transit could increase the spread of respiratory illnesses like the flu.

The province says both vaccines are available at participating pharmacies, public health units and doctors' offices across the province, and it's safe to get them at the same time.

Health officials in Alberta are sounding an alarm over delays in delivery of some vaccines they say could be contributing to vaccine fatigue and a low vaccination rate.

Health Canada has approved updated mRNA vaccines targeting the KP.2 COVID-19 subvariant. These vaccines are approved for use for people six months and older.

As temperatures drop and more Canadians head indoors, the familiar sniffles, aches, and pains may soon follow, signaling the arrival of cold and flu season.

A group of people living in motorhomes along a street in a northeast Calgary industrial park are still living in limbo as a back and forth with the city continues. 

For two days, more than 50 volunteers and more than a dozen businesses teamed up to clean up homeless camps that the RCMP had cleared out on Silver Skagit Road, south of Hope.

The Regional District of Nanaimo is suspending enforcement on length of stay rules for vehicles parked in campgrounds and RV parks as it completes a review of its land use bylaw.

In 2007, Rev. Rhonda Britton came to Halifax's New Horizons — then called Cornwallis Street Baptist Church — becoming the first woman senior pastor at the historic institution.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna targeting the latest variants of the virus are being offered to some high-risk Canadians so far in a phased rollout.

A group of Calgarians who live in RVs parked on the side of a road will be able to stay a little longer as the city works on a long-term solution.

Ontario is proposing to further expand pharmacists' scope by adding to the list of minor ailments they can assess, allowing them to administer more vaccines and order lab tests.

Ontario is expanding its respiratory virus vaccination program this year for infants, high-risk children and pregnant women ahead of the fall flu season.