Canadian family doctors are better than average when it comes to being accessible to their patients but slower to adopt the use of technology to communicate, a recent study says.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information says clinics and hospitals reported 85,195 induced abortions that year -- down 8,835 from the 94,030 procedures reported in 2017.

Lee-Anne Richardson recently created an online platform called Sober City Halifax.

Despite increased interest among Canadians in becoming organ donors, a recent report by the Canadian Institute of Health Informaton (CIHI) says the country's organ supply isn't meeting the demand.

Dr. Jennifer Blake, CEO of The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, says it's difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison with other countries for a few reasons.

Every year the rate of delivering a baby via surgery continues to climb and is far above the ideal rate put forward by the World Health Organization.

Canadian families often face situations where mental health services are either not funded by provincial health plans or are only available after a lengthy wait.

Small communities in Canada have hospitalization rates for opioid poisonings more than double those in the country's largest cities, according to 2017 data presented last year by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Manitoba has one of the lowest rates of hospitalization for youth mental health concerns in Canada, according to a new report.

The report found 30 per cent of patients across Canada are waiting longer than the recommended wait times for hip or knee replacements or cataract surgery.