NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he'd use the billions of dollars the federal government transfers to provinces for health care as leverage to push for better local services.

A commentary in a prominent medical journal says patients ought to be told when doctors-in-training are going to play an active role in their surgeries.

New numbers from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Alberta Health Services has found Albertans are waiting longer than the national average for five types of cancer surgery.

While there were more surgeries performed in Canada between 2010 and 2014, wait times haven’t budged, according to a new report.

The intensive care unit is a last frontier for physical therapy: It's hard to exercise patients hooked to ventilators so they can breathe.

Canadians celebrate their universal health care, but why doesn’t the country have its own universal drug plan? While it sounds expensive, new research suggests that the idea is feasible.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care issued new guidelines to help frontline health care workers prevent and manage adult obesity.

The flu season arrived just in time for the New Year: across the country, hospitals are bracing for patients sick with H3N2.

Chinese health authorities put a hospital president on probation and fired three others following public outrage over photos posted online of smiling medical staff posing with patients in the middle of surgery.

Ottawa implemented new rules prohibiting patients from growing their own pot and instead restricting production and sale to a new collection of operations.